![]() ![]() Titan is a magnificent biography-balanced, revelatory, elegantly written. 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. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma.ĭrawing 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. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. 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. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Rockefeller, Sr.-the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. I thought that he was such a cold, boring, wooden, mean. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalistįrom the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. RON CHERNOW, AUTHOR, TITAN: Frankly, I didnt want to write about Rockefeller at the beginning. ![]()
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