The life and times of Ernest Whitworth Marland, whose flyer to
fortune in the ??20's epitomized those last years of unlimited
opportunity, and whose decline personalized the end of the age of
freedom- as well as the many tensions that went with it. Born with
wealth and trained as a lawyer, Marland drifted into oil in
Pittsburgh, then went west as a young man where be struck oil in
Oklahoma, soon extended his empire to vast; proportions. Driven by
pride and self-interest, a love of bigness as well as an
understanding of the little man, a materialistic conception of
happiness- which was fulfilled, Marland became one of the big oil
producers, and when he lost most of his money and control, spent a
few of his last years as a Congressman and as governor of
Oklahoma.....There's little of the speculative fever of the big
plunge here, for what is essentially an impersonal, professional
biography of financial enterprise. Beyond the regional, the market
looks limited. (Kirkus Reviews)
One of America's most colorful oilmen was Ernest Whitworth
Marland, a man who had much in common with other industrial giants
of his age-- the Mellons, Rockefellers, the Morgans.
Moving to Ponca City, Oklahoma, from Pennsylvania shortly after
the turn of the century, Marland quickly found oil on the lands of
the Ponca and the Osage Indians.
E.W. Marland was a man of paradox--an advocate of unhampered oil
exploration but also a champion of oil conservation, a man who
lived in luxury but espoused the common causes of his idol,
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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