An American Hero: The Red Adair Story : An Authorized Biography - Hardcover

Singerman, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316792810 ISBN 13: 9780316792813

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1990

Synopsis

Chronicles the sixty-year career of Red Adair, an American who began extinguishing blazes in the Texas oil fields in the 1920s and continues to fight massive oil fires in the Middle East

About this title

From Library Journal:

This life story of Paul Neal (Red) Adair, an extraordinary good ol' Texas boy, is interspersed with, and overshadowed by, stories of the famous oil well fires he extinguished from Arkansas to the Southeast Asian peninsula of Malaya. Also included are the 1988 North Sea and the 1961 Algerian blazes--the latter visible to American astronauts from their space capsule. There is great drama in Red's battles with nerve and nitro against oil disasters (John Wayne played a character based on Adair in the 1969 film Hellfighters ), and there is just enough technical detail to enthrall readers and make them accept the author's estimate of Red Adair as an all-time hero. Readers Digest plans to serialize the story, so expect patron demand for the book. --Janice Dunham, John Jay Coll. Lib., CUNY
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0316792810
• ISBN 13: 9780316792813
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276