Book · 1998 · Nonfiction

Titan

Name: Titan
Author: Ron Chernow

The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Ron Chernow

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 832 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Rockefeller controlled ninety percent of American oil refining by the time he was forty, tithed to his church weekly, and saw no contradiction. Chernow makes him legible without absolving him.

Genre

Business biography Business Biography

Subject

Rags to riches Monopoly Philanthropy

Setting

United States

Time

1998

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Quote · 1911

“Is there not a casual connection between the development of these huge, indomitable trusts and the horrible crimes now under investigation?... Is it not irony to speak of the equality of opportunity in a country cursed with their bigness?”

Louis Brandeis

Quote · 1893

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