<div><P>This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.</P><P>Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In <I>Oil Man</I>, Michael Wallis, a best-selling historian of the West, presents Phillips against a pageant of luminaries and outlaws that includes Will Rogers, Harry Truman, Edna Ferber, J. Paul Getty, and Pretty Boy Floyd.<BR><BR> Spanning the final days of America's frontier West through the Roaring Twenties and two world wars, <I>Oil Man</I> is a bold, colorful biography of an original American entrepreneur. A classic work that continues to gather accolades since its original publication in 1988, the book captures the life and times of an American hero.</P></div>