Titan
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",John D. Rockefeller, Sr. history's first billionaire and the
patriarch of America's most famous dynasty is an icon whose true
nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow,
the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and
Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul
",",etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace...as
detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of
the tycoon as we may ever have",", (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the
first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to
Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark
publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly
alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of
a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, strait-laced
mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's
richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared
monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded ",",the Octopus",", by legions of
muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the
oil produced in America. Rockefeller was likely the most
controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged
that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale
collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial
espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan
spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy
Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to
bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant new evidence of
Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the
cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a
quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance
advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously-his chosen
philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University
of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University-than anyone
before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a
fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives
and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes
that have never before come to light. John D. Rockefeller's story
captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the
dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of
giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With
cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould,
William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J.
Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and
Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry
of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this
monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this
giant subject deserves.",
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Random House USA Inc ,
Ron Chernow
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Random House USA Inc,
Ron Chernow
Výber kníh vydavateľa
Slovart
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Slovart
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