Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Book Reviews of Boone

Boone
ISBN-13: 9780395414330
ISBN-10: 0395414334
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 304
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 3

3.7 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review

2 Book Reviews submitted by our Members...sorted by voted most helpful

knut avatar reviewed Boone on + 59 more book reviews
This is the story of a man who turned a $2,500 investment into America's largest independent oil company in thirty years.
reviewed Boone on + 625 more book reviews
Pickens, in case anyone needs to bereminded, is the independent Texas oil producer and financier who not long ago engineered, in his words, "the largest corporate merger of all time"the Gulf Oil "deal" that increased Gulf stock prices to the immense profit of shareholders (including Pickens) while obliterating the giant corporation itself. This memoir gives an inside, often eyebrow-raising look at the workings of the oil industry as Pickens progresses from a hardscrabble, Texas Panhandle existence to small-scale oil well wild-catting with financing hard to come by; regional and national success with his Mesa Petroleum Co.; risky North Sea exploration during the OPEC oil "shortage";