Author Doug Box

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Author Doug Box.

A book brings to life a real family drama at a place familiar to many fans of the television show 'Dallas'. The new book is called Texas Patriarch. It's a true Texas story of one man's remarkable ambition. His dazzling success in business and how an empire built on oil and cement did not last.

The term larger than life seems like it was invented to describe Cloyce Box. Born into depression era poverty in central Texas Box became a star receiver in the 1950's NFL and than showed an even greater talent for business. launching companies worth tens of millions of dollars.

He lived lavishly but was also famous for his generosity. Towards the end of his life though the immense wealth he had built started to slip away and his four sons sons would discover trying to preserve what their father had created would tear their family apart.