Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist   From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.-the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller 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. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma.   Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller's private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects' troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him "to give all I could"; his devotion to his father; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country's most colorful codger. Titan is a magnificent biography-balanced, revelatory, elegantly written.

ISBN:	9781400077304
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint:	Vintage Books
Published date:	05 Dec 2013
DEWEY:	338.76223382092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xxii, 774
Weight:	1046g
Height:	232mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	42mm

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