The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
by Peter Collier, David Horowitz
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This is the story of an American dynasty: the father, who built the fortune, the son who cleansed the name, the brothers who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends, and the cousins who often wish they had inherited neither. Cast against the backdrop of our country's history is a spectacular array of characters: a bigamist, a robber baron, a philanthropist, a world-weary cynic, a drifting divorcee, polluters, environmentalists, art lovers and money manipulators. Collier show more and Horowitz reveal the myths, scandals, rumors and, above all, the endlessly enthralling, often shocking truth about this unparalleled American dynasty. show lessTags
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A surprisingly readable volume. I've never been very much on either biographies or "I" books because there is to much conceit, to little fact, in most of them.
It kind of surprised me - I picked this 700-page volume up, worked around my job and had it read in a week. Still occasionally quote things from it at people.
One of the interesting things about this Biography of a Dynasty is how the different generations saw the money and reacted to both it and the restrictions that go with lots of money.
It kind of surprised me - I picked this 700-page volume up, worked around my job and had it read in a week. Still occasionally quote things from it at people.
One of the interesting things about this Biography of a Dynasty is how the different generations saw the money and reacted to both it and the restrictions that go with lots of money.
A long detailed but interesting chronology of this well known family.
Horowitz, David (Joint Author.); Rockefeller family (Subject)
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Peter Collier is an author who often collaborated on his boooks with David Horowitz. Together they co-wrote books about dynasty families like: The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (1976), The Kennedys: An American Drama (1984) and The Fords: An American Epic (1987), and in 1994 Collier published The Roosevelts: An American Saga, with Horowitz show more contributing. In addition, Collier wrote a novel, Down River (1979); a children's book, The King's Giraffe (with his wife, 1996); and books honoring military figures like Medal of Honor: Portraits of Valor Beyond the Call of Duty (2003). During the 1960s and '70s, Collier and Horowitz worked together on the New Left journal Ramparts, but "made a 180-degree turn and began writing books and articles from the conservative side of the spectrum. Their 1989 book, Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, attacked what they perceived to be the nostalgia that had grown up around that decade. In 1998, Collier founded Encounter Books, which has published a range of authors, many of them conservative. Peter Collier passed away on November 1, 2019 from leukemia. He was 80 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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David Horowitz is the author of numerous books, including the New York Times bestseller Unholy Alliance, as well as The Professors, and his celebrated autobiography Radical Son. He is president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and founder of the online news magazine FrontPageMag.com.
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- Original publication date
- 1976
- Epigraph
- "Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. One in economics, the other in politics, refuted the liberal dream of universal happiness through individual competition, substituting inst... (show all)ead monopoly and the corporation.
Bertrand Russel - First words
- In the early years of the twentieth century, when the Protestant Church was united in its crusade to save the heathen world, the Congregationalists worked hard to conscript their share of Christian soldiers for assignment to ... (show all)the dark lands where the climactic battles between good and evil were to be fought.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Far from what Junior envisioned, in neither fact is there much cause for regret.
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