What was the world's first billionaire really like? This highly
entertaining work, by an acclaimed business biographer, seeks to
explode the "shadowy myth" of John D. Rockefeller and reveal the
"rare and astonishing personality" behind it. From his humble roots
in Ohio, where he learned thrift and industry as the bookkeeper of
a dockside warehouse, to the death threats this "modern
Machiavelli" received during the early years of Standard Oil, to
his ascendancy to the rank of "the most detested man in the
country"-when churches refused his donations as tainted money-and
his subsequent formation of the philanthropic Rockefeller
Foundation, this is a knowingly ironic and subtly witty work of
biography. JOHN K. WINKLER is also the author of W.R. Hearst: An
American Phenomenon (1928) and Morgan the Magnificent, or The Life
of J. Pierpont Morgan (1930).
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