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Home Used & Out of Print The First Billion Is the Hardest : Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future

The First Billion Is the Hardest by T. Boone Pickens

The First Billion Is the Hardest : Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future by T. Boone Pickens

  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Pub. Date:  09/02/2008
  • ISBN-13: 9780307395771
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0307395774 Review ?Entertaining?both Adam Smith and Horatio Alger would find something to like in the rise of T. Boone Pickens.? ?Wall Street Journal ?The latest memoir from the Texas oilman?Pickens? sauciness does entertain.? ?Time magazine ?Sassy?breezes along?salted with earthy aphorisms.? ?Bloomberg ?Self-deprecating and audacious?overall, it?s decidedly informative about the machinations of business.? ?Dallas Morning News ?A fascinating, eye-opening book by one of America's greatest iconoclasts and entrepreneurs. Boone Pickens? sense of daring and innovation has never been sharper. Readers will quickly realize that this billionaire's extraordinary achievements are but a warm-up for what he is about to do now.? ?Steve Forbes, President and CEO, Forbes Inc., and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine ?Boone?s analysis of America?s energy situation is 100% on the money. In easy and colorful language he tells us where we are going wrong and what we must do about it. The country should listen to h ...

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New York 2008 Hardcover New 0307395774 Review? Entertaining? both Adam Smith and Horatio Alger would find something to like in the rise of T. Boone Pickens. ? ? Wall Street Journal? The latest memoir from the Texas oilman? Pickens? sauciness does entertain. ? ? Time magazine? Sassy? breezes along? salted with earthy aphorisms. ? ? Bloomberg? Self-deprecating and audacious? overall, it? s decidedly informative about the machinations of business. ? ? Dallas Morning News? A fascinating, eye-opening book by one of America's greatest iconoclasts and entrepreneurs. Boone Pickens? sense of daring and innovation has never been sharper. Readers will quickly realize that this billionaire's extraordinary achievements are but a warm-up for what he is about to do now. ? ? Steve Forbes, President and CEO, Forbes Inc., and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine? Boone? s analysis of America? s energy situation is 100% on the money. In easy and colorful language he tells us where we are going wrong and what we must do about

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New York 2008 Hard cover New in new dust jacket. (6-09) Hardback Book is brand new in Near Mint cond, with dj in Near Mint cond. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 260 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.

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2008 Hard cover First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 260 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. First edition first printing HB with DJ

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2008 Hard cover First edition. Third Printing New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED "T BOONE PICKENS" on title page. Photo of him signing this book is included. New, no flaws. Brodart protected. Ships in a box.

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