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Rockefeller book titan
Rockefeller book titan












Once, while Rockefeller was being shaved at Forest Hill, Junior entered with a plan to give away his Sunday-school money in one lump sum, for a fixed period, and be done with it. Aware of the rich children spoiled by their parents, Senior seized every opportunity to teach his son the value of money. into fascinatingsocial history.“For this boy destined to be the world’s greatest heir, money was so omnipresent as to be invisible-something “there, like air or food or any other element,” he later said-yet it was never easily attainable.11 As if he were a poor, rural boy, he earned pocket change by mending vases and broken fountain pens or by sharpening pencils. He turns the machinations of Standard Oil.

rockefeller book titan

Reveals the man behind both the mask and the myth."-"The Wall Street Journal" Titan is a magnificent biography -balanced, revelatory, and elegantly written. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him "to give all I could" his devotion to his family and the wry sense of humor that made him the country's most colorful codger. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma.ĭrawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller's private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subject's troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. Rockefeller, Sr., was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. In the course of his nearly 98 years, John D. In this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-winning biographer Ron Chernow devotes his penetrating powers of scholarship and insight to the Jekyll and Hyde of American capitalism. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind."-"The New York Times Book Review"

rockefeller book titan

Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D.

rockefeller book titan

Wonderfully fluent and compelling." -"The New York Times" "A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel.

rockefeller book titan

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Rockefeller book titan