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. Starting in 1879, Rockefeller began a 30-year career as a fugitive from. 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. Rockefeller was a business genius, although his methods were more than rapacious. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma. 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. Rockefeller, Sr.-the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. 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.
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