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OIL BARON OF THE SOUTHWEST: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico (Historical Perspectives on Business Enterprise)

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Martin Ansell has written an intelligent, obviously well researched book on Edward Doheny, but just as he has accused the other biographer of Doheny, Dan La Botz (Edward L. Doheny: Petroleum, Power, and Plitics in the United States and Mexico), of having a negative bias of Doheny as seen from the political left, Mr. Ansell's presumptions about Doheny's honorable nature and neglected status as a major, constructive pioneer of the American West is clearly written from the political right.
After reading both these works, I'm still waiting for a book that has some objectivity in its analysis of the life of Edward Doheny. However, due to Doheny having all his records destroyed after his death, any objective book may be about five pages long.

Interesting, historical, about a man that left an impact on the oil industry and California. A special interest to me, I am a distant relative. The Three Doheny brothers came from Ireland, moved to MN, had large families. Many of these decendents were brave and adventureous.