He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma.ĭrawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller's private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subject's troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. 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. In the course of his nearly 98 years, John D. In 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. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind."-"The New York Times Book Review" Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Wonderfully fluent and compelling." -"The New York Times"
"A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel.
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
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