Going to Windward : A Mosbacher Family Memoir.
Mosbacher Sr., Robert A.
Going to Windward : A Mosbacher Family Memoir. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 From Less Than Nothing -- Chapter 2 The Boy Plunger -- Chapter 3 The Breaks of a Dozen Men -- Chapter 4 Guys and Dolls -- Chapter 5 "Paint It Blue and Sell Itto Mosbacher" -- Chapter 6 Luck in the Breeze -- Chapter 7 "From Little Acorns Oak TreesGrow . . . You Don't Have Any Acorns Yet" -- Chapter 8 Just Get the Crumbs -- Chapter 9 Three Cents in the Ground -- Chapter 10 Cover Boys -- Chapter 11 Stumbled Into It -- Chapter 12 No Price on Life or Limb -- Chapter 13 Blessed are the Gatherers -- Chapter 14 What Do You Win VersusWhat Do You Lose? -- Chapter 15 Do You Suppose They'llBelieve I Stayed? -- Chapter 16 "Please, I Don't Like to Beg" -- Chapter 17 Mr. Secretary -- Chapter 18 Don't Screw It Up -- Chapter 19 Actions, Not Just Words -- Chapter 20 Don't Let Them Put You Out Front -- Chapter 21 When All Is Said and Done,There's Nothing Left but Family -- Epilogue -- Index.
THE HONORABLE ROBERT A. MOSBACHER SR., U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992. He served on the boards of the American Petroleum Institute, Texas Commerce Bank, and New York Life Insurance Company and was the founding owner of Houston's Mosbacher Energy Company. Robert A. Mosbacher Sr. died January 24, 2010.
9781603443098
Mosbacher, Robert A. -- (Robert Adam), -- 1927-2010.
Mosbacher, Robert A. -- (Robert Adam), -- 1927-2010 -- Family.
Mosbacher family.
United States. -- Dept. of Commerce. -- Office of the Secretary -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Texas -- Biography.
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Texas -- History.
Electronic books.
HD9570 -- .M65 2010eb
338.7/6223385092;B
Going to Windward : A Mosbacher Family Memoir. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 From Less Than Nothing -- Chapter 2 The Boy Plunger -- Chapter 3 The Breaks of a Dozen Men -- Chapter 4 Guys and Dolls -- Chapter 5 "Paint It Blue and Sell Itto Mosbacher" -- Chapter 6 Luck in the Breeze -- Chapter 7 "From Little Acorns Oak TreesGrow . . . You Don't Have Any Acorns Yet" -- Chapter 8 Just Get the Crumbs -- Chapter 9 Three Cents in the Ground -- Chapter 10 Cover Boys -- Chapter 11 Stumbled Into It -- Chapter 12 No Price on Life or Limb -- Chapter 13 Blessed are the Gatherers -- Chapter 14 What Do You Win VersusWhat Do You Lose? -- Chapter 15 Do You Suppose They'llBelieve I Stayed? -- Chapter 16 "Please, I Don't Like to Beg" -- Chapter 17 Mr. Secretary -- Chapter 18 Don't Screw It Up -- Chapter 19 Actions, Not Just Words -- Chapter 20 Don't Let Them Put You Out Front -- Chapter 21 When All Is Said and Done,There's Nothing Left but Family -- Epilogue -- Index.
THE HONORABLE ROBERT A. MOSBACHER SR., U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1989 to 1992. He served on the boards of the American Petroleum Institute, Texas Commerce Bank, and New York Life Insurance Company and was the founding owner of Houston's Mosbacher Energy Company. Robert A. Mosbacher Sr. died January 24, 2010.
9781603443098
Mosbacher, Robert A. -- (Robert Adam), -- 1927-2010.
Mosbacher, Robert A. -- (Robert Adam), -- 1927-2010 -- Family.
Mosbacher family.
United States. -- Dept. of Commerce. -- Office of the Secretary -- Officials and employees -- Biography.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Texas -- Biography.
Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.
Petroleum -- Prospecting -- Texas -- History.
Electronic books.
HD9570 -- .M65 2010eb
338.7/6223385092;B