The Big Rich
The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes

In The Big Rich, bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bryan Burrough chronicles the rise and fall of one of the great economic and political powerhouses of the 20th century—Texas oil. By weaving together the multigenerational stories of the state’s four wealthiest oil fortunes, Burrough has produced an enthralling tale of money, family and power in the American century.

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Barbarians at the Gate
The Fall of RJR Nabisco
By Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s gripping account of the frenzy that overtook Wall Street in October and November of 1988 is the story of deal makers and publicity flaks, of strategy meetings and society dinners, of boardrooms and bedrooms — giving us not only a detailed look at how financial operations at the highest levels are conducted but also a richly textured social history of wealth at the twilight of the Reagan era.

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Public Enemies
America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34

Burrough examines the stories of John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, the Barker-Karpis Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, and Bonnie and Clyde as a single narrative history of the FBI’s “War on Crime” from 1933 to 1936.  For Burrough, the story is about the bureaucratic evolution of the FBI from a bungling group of amateurs to a professional crime-fighting organization and his central aim is to reclaim the history for the individual agents involved. In 2009, the book was made into a movie starring Johnny Depp.

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Dragonfly
An Epic Adventure of Survival in Outer Space

In this riveting account of the ill-fated American missions to MIR, bestselling author Bryan Burrough tells the incredible true story of how a joint Russian-American crew narrowly survived almost every trauma an astronaut could imagine: fire, power blackouts, chemical leaks, docking failures, nail-biting spacewalks and constant mechanical breakdowns, all climaxing in a dramatic midspace collision that left everyone on board scrambling for their lives.

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Vendetta
American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra

Burrough takes a revealing look at American Express’s campaign to discredit one of its rivals. Vendetta unravels the top-secret plan to ruin the reputation of international banker Edmond Safra and undermine his bank in Geneva.