“A masterful synthesis of research and writing. A thoughtfulĪnd balanced approach to one of the most significant and controversial lives of “Good biographies are hard to find and great ones even rarer. Of the most famous men in American business history. “With uncanny timing, Ron Chernow has written a captivating biography of one “A triumph of research, understanding and elegant writing.” -Houston “What a story! An outstanding business biography.” -The New York Observer This is the best biography of the man so far.” -The “Ron Chernow’s portrait of Rockefeller, an eccentric on a heroic scale as well asĪ genius, is convincing. WILLIAM JAMES in a letter to Henry James January 29, 1904Ī New York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceĪ Business Week Best Business Book of the Year Goodness and conscientiousness, yet accused of being the greatest villain in business whom our country has produced. Physionomie de Pierrot (not a spear of hair on head or face) flexible, cunning, quakerish, superficially suggestive of naught but A man 10 storiesĭeep, and to me quite unfathomable. Rockefeller, you know, is reputed the richest man in the world, and he certainly is the most powerfully suggestive personality I have ever seen. Science today owes as much to the rich men of generosity and discernment as the art of the Renaissance owes to the patronage of Popes and Princes. Rockefeller, it may well be that his endowment of research will be recognized as a milestone in the progress of the When history passes its final verdict on John D. WELLS The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind His cold persistence and ruthlessness may arouse something like horror, but for all that he was a forward-moving Rockefeller had to occur in America, and it is all to the good of the world that he was tight-lipped, consistent and amazingly freeįrom vulgar vanity, sensuality and quarrelsomeness. BERTRAND RUSSELL Freedom Versus Organization, 1814 to 1914

Happiness through individual competition, substituting monopoly and the corporate state, or at least movements toward them. One in economics, the other in politics, refuted the liberal dream of universal Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. Who pulled me back, at the last moment, from the brink, CHAPTER 12 - Insurrection in the Oil FieldsĬHAPTER 26 - The World’s Richest Fugitive

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