Dark Side of Fortune : Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L...

by Margaret Leslie Davis

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Dark Side of Fortune : Triumph and Scandal in the Life of Oil Tycoon Edward L. Doheny, Paperback by Davis, Margaret Leslie, ISBN 0520229096, ISBN-13 9780520229099, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Dark Side of Fortune is a brilliant biography of the tarnished oil tycoon, Edward Doheny, whose importance as an American industrial pioneer ranks with such better-known figures as Rockefeller and Carnegie. Margaret Leslie Davis has written a superbly researched and definitive account of the founder of the modern petroleum industry in California and of his machinations in Mexico and the involvement in the notorious Teapot Dome scandal. Davis has a sympathetic understanding of Doheny but tells his story warts and all. He emerges from the compelling biography as a conflicted man who is at once a hero and a scoundrel--and above all an American original who seems larger than life."--Lou Cannon "The life of Edward L. Doheny offers a fascinating saga of early twentieth century American triumph and tragedy. Dark Side of Fortune, based on significant new archival discoveries, resurrects Doheny in a sympathetic, yet not uncritical, and always readable, biography, shedding new light on the oil industry, . relations with Mexico, and the political scandals of the 1920s."--Jules Tygiel, San Francisco State University "In terms of family saga, the Doheny story is the Ariadne's thread of Los Angeles history. It is perhaps the best pathway both into--and out of!--the labyrinth of the foundin

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2001
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780520229099
• Condition: Fine

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