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    The document summarizes a new book by Sam and Andrew Wyly titled "Texas Got It Right!". The book explores why Texas has been more prosperous than other states, covering topics like pioneering entrepreneurs, modern businesses like Dell and Whole Foods, and landmarks from the Alamo to the invention of the microchip. Through photos, portraits, and infographics, it examines the historical, political, cultural, and economic forces behind Texas' success. While an educational reference for Texans, the book also contains ideas meant to be exported to other states. Sam Wyly is an entrepreneur who has founded many successful companies over 50 years, and his son Andrew is a movie producer and co-author of the book.

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    The document summarizes a new book by Sam and Andrew Wyly titled "Texas Got It Right!". The book explores why Texas has been more prosperous than other states, covering topics like pioneering entrepreneurs, modern businesses like Dell and Whole Foods, and landmarks from the Alamo to the invention of the microchip. Through photos, portraits, and infographics, it examines the historical, political, cultural, and economic forces behind Texas' success. While an educational reference for Texans, the book also contains ideas meant to be exported to other states. Sam Wyly is an entrepreneur who has founded many successful companies over 50 years, and his son Andrew is a movie producer and co-author of the book.

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    The document summarizes a new book by Sam and Andrew Wyly titled "Texas Got It Right!". The book explores why Texas has been more prosperous than other states, covering topics like pioneering entrepreneurs, modern businesses like Dell and Whole Foods, and landmarks from the Alamo to the invention of the microchip. Through photos, portraits, and infographics, it examines the historical, political, cultural, and economic forces behind Texas' success. While an educational reference for Texans, the book also contains ideas meant to be exported to other states. Sam Wyly is an entrepreneur who has founded many successful companies over 50 years, and his son Andrew is a movie producer and co-author of the book.

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    TEXAS GOT I T RI GHT!

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    Melcher Media is distributed by Perseus Distribution.
    To order, please contact your Perseus sales rep;
    email: [email protected]; or call 800-343-4499.
    BY SAM AND ANDREW WYLY
    Melcher Media
    124 West 13th Street
    New York, NY 10011
    Phone: (212) 727-2322 | Email: [email protected]
    Description
    Why is it that Texas is growing while the other 49 states in America are fat or fat-out
    broke? Why does Texasa state known for oil wildcatters and cowboyslead the
    country in high-tech windmills? Why does everybody want to move to Texas, even
    n-N-Out Burger?
    The answer, according to Sam and Andrew Wyly is simple: Texas got it right!
    The Wylys' new full-color, fully illustrated handbook, Texas Got It Right!, offers
    a dynamic and incisive guide to what makes Texas tick.While Texas has always
    been among the nation's biggest states, it is today the most prosperous. With their
    keen understanding of the historical, political, cultural, and economic forces behind
    the rise of the Lone Star State, the Wylys unpack the people and ideas that have
    made their state so successful. Via a series of photo essays, portraits, and stunning
    and informative infographics, the book covers everything from Texas's original
    entrepreneursthe pioneers, refugees, cattlemen, and adventurers who came
    from all over and achieved success by understanding and working the land around
    themto modern, category-leading businesses like Texas nstruments, Dell, Whole
    Foods, and Southwest Airlines.
    While this picture-book-and-expos hybrid will be critically valuable as an
    educational reference for the state's 25-million-and-growing population, it is also
    packed with ideas begging to be exported to the other, less fortunate states. Smart,
    insightful, and humorous commentary combined with hundreds of extensively
    researched, show-stopping images make for a reading experience that's as inspiring
    as it is informative. From the Houston Ship Channel to the new Dallas Cowboys
    stadium, from the Spindletop gusher at Beaumont to the invention of the microchip
    and portable calculator at Texas nstruments, from the Alamo to Mary Kay Ash,
    Texas Got it Right! is ultimately a business book that speaks to the heart of what is
    possible in America.
    About Sam WyIy
    Born in 1934, Sam Wyly was raised in rural Louisiana. n 1957, he received his
    MBA from the University of Michigan's Business School and began his career as
    a salesman for BM and then for Honeywell. Six years later, at the age of 28, Wyly
    was out on his own, creating his frst company, University Computing, which offered
    computer services to local businesses. Over the course of the past 50 years, he has
    founded or grown successful companies in computing, computer software products,
    oil refning, insurance, steakhouse franchising, arts-and-crafts retailing, hedge-fund
    investing, environmentally friendly electricity, and nternet carbon offsets. Wyly is a
    philanthropist, an avid reader, and a family man. He resides in Dallas and in Aspen
    with his wife, Cheryl, and has six children and two great-grandchildren. He is the
    author of 1,000 Dollars & an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire.
    About Andrew WyIy
    Andrew Wyly, son of Sam Wyly, is a movie producer and co-author of this book.
    Paperback with
    faps
    1-59591-074-3
    978-1-59591-074-5
    176
    7" x 9"
    Approximately 200
    $19.95 US
    $23.00 CAN
    September 2012
    TEXAS
    RIGHT
    G
    O
    T
    IT

    TEXAS
    RIGHT
    SAM AND ANDREW WYLY
    For Texas Sales Inquiries:
    Jenny Phillips
    214.724.2240
    [email protected]
    Melcher Media
    124 West 13th Street
    New York, NY 10011
    Phone: (212) 727-2322 | Email: [email protected]
    TEXAS GOT I T RI GHT!

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