TEXAS GOT IT RIGHT! BY SAM AND ANDREW WYLY 'HVFULSWLRQ :K\LVLWWKDW7H[DVLVJURZLQJZKLOHWKHRWKHUVWDWHVLQ$PHULFDDUHÀDWRUÀDWRXW TEXASTEXAS broke? Why does Texas—a state known for oil wildcatters and cowboys—lead the GOT IT country in high-tech windmills? Why does everybody want to move to Texas, even In-N-Out Burger? The answer, according to Sam and Andrew Wyly is simple: Texas got it right! RIGHTRIGHT 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 SAM AND ANDREW WYLY 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 6SHFL¿FDWLRQV entrepreneurs—the pioneers, refugees, cattlemen, and adventurers who came from all over and achieved success by understanding and working the land around Format: Paperback with them—to modern, category-leading businesses like Texas Instruments, Dell, Whole ÀDSV Foods, and Southwest Airlines. ISBN-10: 1-59591-074-3 While this picture-book-and-exposé hybrid will be critically valuable as an ISBN-13: 978-1-59591-074-5 educational reference for the state’s 25-million-and-growing population, it is also Page Count: 176 packed with ideas begging to be exported to the other, less fortunate states. Smart, Trim Size: 7" x 9" insightful, and humorous commentary combined with hundreds of extensively Illustrations: Approximately 200 researched, show-stopping images make for a reading experience that’s as inspiring $19.95 US as it is informative. From the Houston Ship Channel to the new Dallas Cowboys Price: $23.00 CAN stadium, from the Spindletop gusher at Beaumont to the invention of the microchip Pub Date: September 2012 and portable calculator at Texas Instruments, 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. $ERXW6DP:\O\ For Texas Sales Inquiries: Born in 1934, Sam Wyly was raised in rural Louisiana. In 1957, he received his Jenny Phillips MBA from the University of Michigan’s Business School and began his career as a salesman for IBM and then for Honeywell. Six years later, at the age of 28, Wyly 214.724.2240 [email protected] ZDVRXWRQKLVRZQFUHDWLQJKLV¿UVWFRPSDQ\8QLYHUVLW\&RPSXWLQJZKLFKRIIHUHG 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, RLOUH¿QLQJLQVXUDQFHVWHDNKRXVHIUDQFKLVLQJDUWVDQGFUDIWVUHWDLOLQJKHGJHIXQG investing, environmentally friendly electricity, and Internet 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. $ERXW$QGUHZ:\O\ Andrew Wyly, son of Sam Wyly, is a movie producer and co-author of this book. Melcher Media 124 West 13th Street Melcher Media is distributed by Perseus Distribution. New York, NY 10011 To order, please contact your Perseus sales rep; Phone: (212) 727-2322 | Email: [email protected] email: [email protected]; or call 800-343-4499. TEXAS GOT IT RIGHT! Melcher Media 124 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 727-2322 | Email: [email protected].