Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book indelibly alters our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.īorn the son of a flamboyant, bigamous snake-oil salesman and a pious, straitlaced mother, Rockefeller rose from rustic origins to become the world’s richest man by creating America’s most powerful and feared monopoly, Standard Oil. Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller’s exceptionally rich trove of papers. Now Ron Chernow, a National Book Award-winning biographer, gives us a detailed and insightful history of the mogul. Rockefeller, Sr., history’s first billionaire and the patriarch of America’s most famous dynasty, is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians.
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