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Titan the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Random House c1998Description: xxii, 774 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781400077304
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.762CHE
Summary: In this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-Winning biographer Rpn Chernow devotes his penetrating powers of scholarship and insight to the jekyll and Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, John D. Rockefeller Sr. 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.
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Book Book UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Biography 338.762CHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available URD000269

Includes bibliographical references (p. [737]-749)

In this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-Winning biographer Rpn Chernow devotes his penetrating powers of scholarship and insight to the jekyll and Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, John D. Rockefeller Sr. 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.

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