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Titan : The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr par Ron Chernow (2013, disque compact,
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Audiobook
- Features
- Audio CD, Unabridged
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9781470882181
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Compact Disc
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Titan : the Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- General, Historical, Business
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John D. Rockefeller, Sr., history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. Born the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world's richest man by creating America's most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America. Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan spent more than thirty years dodging investigations until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously than anyone before him--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light. John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. P. Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he writes this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1470882183
ISBN-13
9781470882181
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160064694
Product Key Features
Book Title
Titan : the Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Format
Compact Disc
Language
English
Topic
General, Historical, Business
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Dimensions
Item Length
5.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Additional Product Features
Edition Description
Unabridged Edition
Reviews
It is hard to imagine a better biography of Rockefeller being written...An enthralling biography of an enthralling person., Sweeping...Chernow lays out the [Rockefeller] conundrum superbly, delineating the forces that shaped this man and the ways he responded to them., Chernow, biographer of the Warburgs and the Morgans, has his finest subject in Rockefeller, and is able to furnish anecdotes galore from his encyclopedic research in the family archives...Rather than the cunning, churchgoing hypocrite of legend who spent his Sundays piously but weekdays wrecking his rivals, Rockefeller emerges in Chernow's elegantly told biography as an enterprising monopolist who 'regarded God as an ally, a sort of honorary shareholder of Standard Oil.', Ron Chernow's portrait of Rockefeller, an eccentric on a heroic scale as well as a genius, is convincing...This is the best biography of the man so far., Most people think of the founder of Standard Oil as a cold, heartless capitalist who cared for nothing but money and destroying the competition. This biography acknowledges Rockefeller's dark side but also tries to show him as a man whose generosity still shapes our world. Narrator Grover Gardner's deep, resonant voice is a wonderful accompaniment to the story of this Gilded Age robber baron. Gardner's tone and inflection bring to mind the mahogany-paneled clubs that were the refuges of the nineteenth-century corporate elite, and he especially excels when reading quotes from the leaders who lived during that era. It's an elite performance without a hint of elitism, and, as Rockefeller himself surely would say, merits the investment in time and money., Good biographies are hard to find and great ones even rarer...A thoughtful and balanced approach to one of the most significant and controversial lives of the past century...Spellbinding., A monumental and mesmerizing biography...A fascinating yarn, capturing a man who insisted he could serve God and Mammon., By the time Chernow is finished, the old guy seems utterly human...and oddly appealing...A timeless parable of our civilization., A scrupulously balanced, frequently fascinating, and humanizing portrait of a figure of seemingly superhuman energy and ambition., With uncanny timing, Ron Chernow has written a captivating biography of one of the most famous men in American business history...Business needs more books like Titan., Chernow has written the definitive biographies of two other legendary financial dynasties...Now, with his Rockefeller biography, he has completed an extraordinary trilogy about the towering figures of twentieth-century commerce., You can read this book as a sympathetic portrait of a complex man, a business history, a legal battle, or simply as a great yarn., The archetypal American institution-builder--in industry, philanthropy, and the family dynasty bearing his name--is etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace by National Book Award-winning business historian Chernow...Business biography on a grand scale.
Copyright Date
2013
Dewey Decimal
338.7/622382/092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Number of Pages
22 Pages
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