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Overview"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)." Full Product DetailsAuthor: John K WinklerPublisher: Cosimo Classics Imprint: Cosimo Classics Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.467kg ISBN: 9781602069688ISBN 10: 1602069689 Pages: 260 Publication Date: 01 November 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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