Bryan Burrough
Дата рождения: August 13, 1961 – Temple, Texas, United States
Bryan Burrough is an American journalist and nonfiction author focused on business, crime, and modern U.S. history. He is best known for co-authoring the bestselling Barbarians at the Gate and for books including Public Enemies and Days of Rage, which examine Wall Street, organized crime, and political violence in America.
Биография и Путь Автора
Bryan Burrough emerged from the old-school reporting tradition rather than from a personal platform-first model. A Temple-raised Texan, he studied at the University of Missouri School of Journalism and graduated in 1983, then began his professional rise at The Wall Street Journal. The first decisive turning point came with the RJR Nabisco takeover, which he and John Helyar covered closely and later transformed into Barbarians at the Gate, a book that became a landmark of corporate narrative nonfiction. During those years he also collected multiple Gerald Loeb honors, establishing a reputation for making complex systems of money and power legible to general readers. ((https://texasinstituteofletters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/TIL-Mar-2011-newsletter.pdf?utm_source=openai))
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"Bryan Burrough has long been one of this nation’s best storytellers"
— Kurt Eichenwald
"Bryan Burrough has delivered a terrific piece of research, reportage and storytelling"
— Paul Ingrassia
"In “The Gunfighters,” Bryan Burrough sets out to debunk the myth of the Colt-toting cowboy hero"
— The Washington Post
"It’s hard to imagine a greater literary marriage than that of the oil barons of Texas and Bryan Burrough"
— David Margolick
"In The Gunfighters, Bryan Burrough takes dead aim at one of America’s greatest foundation myths"
— S.C. Gwynne
"Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford urge us to reconsider the Alamo"
— Texas Observer
"In spellbinding fashion, Bryan Burrough’s Days of Rage brilliantly explicates one of the most confounding periods of recent American history"
— William D. Cohan
"In this lively book, Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford dig deep into Texas history to separate fact from legend"
— Karen Tumulty
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