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- In chronicling the life and career of Albert Gore, Sr., historian Anthony J. Badger explores the successes and failures.
- Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers.
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Random Reminiscences
MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER AT THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
of Men and Events
BY
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1909
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1909, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
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PREFACE
Probably in the life of every one there comes a time when he is inclined to go over again the events, great and small,
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Bart Chernow, who pulled me back, at the last moment, from the brink, and to the lovely Valerie Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. One in economics, the other in politics, refuted the liberal dream of universal happiness through individual competition, substituting monopoly and the corporate state, or at least movements toward them. —BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom Versus Organization, 1814 to 1914 Something in the nature of J. D. Rockefeller had to occur in America, and it is all to the good of the world that he was tight-lipped, consistent and amazingly free from vulgar vanity, sensuality and quarrelsomeness. His cold persistence and ruthlessness may arouse something like horror, but for all that he was a forward-moving force, a constructive power. —H. G. WELLS The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind When history passes its final verdict on John D. Rockefeller, it may well be that his endowment of research will be recognized as a milestone in the progress of the race. . . . Science today owes as much to the rich men of generosity
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The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
This is the story of an American dynasty: the father, who built the fortune, the son who cleansed the name, the brothers who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends, and the cousins who often wish they had inherited neither. Cast against the backdrop of America’s history is a spectacular array of characters: a bigamist, a robber baron, a philanthropist, a world-weary cynic, a drifting divorcee, polluters, environmentalists, art lovers and money manipulators.
“[An] absorbing history of the Rockefeller family... a swiftly paced, extensively researched work of social history, a tale of family tensions and neuroses, of successes and failures in private and in public, all of it unfolding against a backdrop of money, influence and power.” — Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times
“[A]n exceptionally good book” — John Kenneth Galbraith, The New York Review of Books
“[Collier and Horowitz] present a sensitive family biography, more wistful than angry, more concerned with the impact of immense wealth on individual personality th
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