Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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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,
a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and
insightful history of the mogul. 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 indelibly alters our image of this
most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous
snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced 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 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
than anyone before him--his chosen philanthropies included the
Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is
today Rockefeller University. 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. P. 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
writes this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight
that this giant subject deserves.
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