Cosimo Classics
John D. Rockefeller: A Portrait in Oils : 9781602069688
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9781602069688
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9781602069688
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$33.08
John D. Rockefeller: A Portrait in Oils : 9781602069688
$33.08
What was the world's first billionaire really like? This highly entertaining work, by an acclaimed business biographer, seeks to explode the "shadowy myth" of John D. Rockefeller and reveal the "rare and astonishing personality" behind it. From his humble roots in Ohio, where he learned thrift and industry as the bookkeeper of a dockside warehouse, to the death threats this "modern Machiavelli" received during the early years of Standard Oil, to his ascendancy to the rank of "the most detested man in the country"-when churches refused his donations as tainted money-and his subsequent formation of the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, this is a knowingly ironic and subtly witty work of biography. JOHN K. WINKLER is also the author of W.R. Hearst: An American Phenomenon (1928) and Morgan the Magnificent, or The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1930).
| Author: John K. Winkler |
| Publisher: Cosimo Classics |
| Publication Date: Nov 01, 2007 |
| Number of Pages: 258 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1602069689 |
| ISBN-13: 9781602069688 |
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