Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
A Business, Economics, American History book. Oh how blessed the young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life....
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist"A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel. . . . Wonderfully fluent and compelling." --The New York Times"A triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Rockefeller Sr. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind."--The New York Times Book ReviewIn this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-winning biographer Ron 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...
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Oh how blessed the young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and a beginning in life. I shall never cease to be grateful for the three and a half years of apprenticeship and the difficulties to be overcome, all the way along. Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. // He made a cryptic statement to Hewitt that entered into Rockefeller folklore: I have ways of making money you know nothing about. Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. // Convinced that struggle was the crucible of character, Rockefeller faced a delicate task in raising his children. He wanted to accumulate wealth while inculcating in them the values of his threadbare boyhood. The first step in saving them from extravagance was keeping them ignorant of their fathers affluence. Until they were adults, Rockefellers children never visited his office or refineries, and even then they were accompanied by company officials, never Father. At home, Rockefeller created a make-believe market economy, calling Cettie the general...
This is one of the best and most interesting books Ive read on any subject. Rockefellers rise from poverty to the richest man in the world was amazing. Yet his great accomplishments are tainted by questionable ethical conduct. He was likely the most conservative, union-busting, Bible- thumping Republican in American history - the good... One of the great American Biographies. Chernow always delivers.The Narrator Grover Gardner, has a monotone type of voice that reminds one of Jack Webb, and yet it seems like exactly the type of voice the listener needs to help them slice through these large historical tomes. I became interested in J.D.R. through my interest in early automotive history. I was curious about Standard Oil, its rise and eventual dismantling, as well as that time period in American History overall (the Gilded Age), to include technology, economic / business, and societal. I felt I couldn't go wrong reading a book on the most...
