Few individuals have experienced as many facets of the oil industry or known as many of its important characters as J. Howard Marshall II. This autobiography details Marshall's career, from his days as a young law student writing about the problems of the oil industry for a prestigious law review, to his oil regulation days under FDR, to his work in some of the country's most important oil companies.
In 1931, Marshall began his career on the "outside" of the industry investigating the legality of oil proration in articles for the "Yale Law Review." In 1933, Secretary of the Interior...