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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
30 CDs (35 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics, and he spent more than thirty years dodging investigations, until Teddy Roosevelt and his trustbusters embarked on a marathon crusade to bring Standard Oil to bay. While providing abundant evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xii, 337 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The author of the popular History of Oil podcast traces the early-20th-century rivalry between John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, describing the origins of partners Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding and how they used respective talents to break Rockefeller's daunting monopoly"--
At the height of the great oil boom of the 1870s-1880s, John D. Rockefeller was seemingly unstoppable. Capitalizing on the newly emerging industry...
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
c2012.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carmegie, Morgan, Ford, the Men Who Built America. Meet the titans who forged the foundation of modern America and created the American Dream. The mini-series shines a spotlight on the influential builders, dreamers and believers whose feats transformed the United States. a nation decaying from the inside after the Civil War, into the greatest economic and technological superpower the world had ever seen.
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