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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by Ron Chernow
Admittedly, I knew nothing about Rockefeller about this personally before I started other than he was a robber baron, he created Standard Oil, and he became the richest man in America at the time. This biography was at least a flattering and humanizing tale of a... extremely prudent family that displayed too much virtue to a fault and no introspection at all.
He was shrewd, that's for sure, and he did love his children. It's a shame he gave them all anxiety complexes because of his tight-fisted accounting, austerity, and temperance issues. Very cool that he was the one who created Spelman College, and his philanthropy was prodigious. Goes to show that he was more multifaceted in his life than his critics made him out to be.
He was shrewd, that's for sure, and he did love his children. It's a shame he gave them all anxiety complexes because of his tight-fisted accounting, austerity, and temperance issues. Very cool that he was the one who created Spelman College, and his philanthropy was prodigious. Goes to show that he was more multifaceted in his life than his critics made him out to be.