Business (15-Dec-1892 — 6-Jun-1976)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

J. Paul Getty, Sr.. As I See It: The Autobiography of J. Paul Getty. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1976. 360pp.

Robert Lenzner. The Great Getty. New York: Crown Publishers. 1986.

Russell Miller. The House of Getty. New York: Henry Holt & Co.. 1985. 362pp.

John Pearson. Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortune of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1995.

AUTHORITIES

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Public Information Research Namebase [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.438)

6. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.251)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.581)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.393)

9. Celebrity Register 3rd Issue (p.191)

10. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.269)

11. Movers & Shakers: The 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business (pp.196-98)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.201)

13. Who's Who in California 1976 (p.36)

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