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Titan

The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
1998 · 832 pages

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.

★ 6.7