Author: Allan NevinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
Study in Power
Author: Allan NevinsThe History of the Standard Oil Company
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
John D. Rockefeller
Author: Grace Goulder IzantPublisher: Cleveland : Western Reserve Historical Society, 1972 [c1973]
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
For more than sixty years, Rockefeller called Cleveland home: it was where he married and raised his children, where he launched his business career, where he kept a secluded retreat, and where he was buried.
Titan
Author: Ron ChernowPublisher:
ISBN: 9780316645881
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
There are worse men than John D Rockefeller,' Arena magazine observed at the turn of the century. 'There is probably not one, however, who in the public mind so typifies the grave and startling menace to social order.' The son of a flamboyant bigamist and pedlar of patent medicine, Rockefeller was by then America's richest man, the mastermind and creator of the country's first and most powerful monopoly: the Standard Oil Company. Reaching into every household across America, Standard Oil controlled 90% of all oil refined in the US, as well as its production, transportation, marketing and distribution. The story of Rockefeller is the story of a pivotal moment in modern history: the shift, after the American Civil War, from small-scale business to economy of scale, and the development of the first modern corporation. In Ron Chernow's magisterial work we see this transition in all of its nuances - accompanied by the rise in labour militancy, the tabloid press and large-scale philanthropy. TITAN is a business epic that, by illuminating the past, teaches us much about where we are today.
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
Author: John Davison RockefellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Building for a Long Future
Author: Brandon L. JohnsonPublisher: Joseph Regenstein Lib
ISBN: 9780943056289
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Business of Being a Woman
Author: Ida Minerva TarbellPublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
God's Gold
Author: John T. FlynnPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610164113
Category : Capitalists and financiers
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
The Myth of the Robber Barons
Author: Burton W. FolsomPublisher: Young Americas Foundation
ISBN: 0963020315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
In his book The Myth of the Robber Barons, Folsom distinguishes between political entrepreneurs who ran inefficient businesses supported by government favors, and market entrepreneurs who succeeded by providing better and lower-cost products or services, usually while facing vigorous competition.
The House the Rockefellers Built
Author: Robert F. DalzellPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 146685166X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
What it was like to be as rich as Rockefeller: How a house gave shape and meaning to three generations of an iconic American family One hundred years ago America's richest man established a dynastic seat, the granite-clad Kykuit, high above the Hudson River. Though George Vanderbilt's 255-room Biltmore had recently put the American country house on the money map, John D. Rockefeller, who detested ostentation, had something simple in mind—at least until his son John Jr. and his charming wife, Abby, injected a spirit of noblesse oblige into the equation. Built to honor the senior Rockefeller, the house would also become the place above all others that anchored the family's memories. There could never be a better picture of the Rockefellers and their ambitions for the enormous fortune Senior had settled upon them. The authors take us inside the house and the family to observe a century of building and rebuilding—the ebb and flow of events and family feelings, the architecture and furnishings, the art and the gardens. A complex saga, The House the Rockefellers Built is alive with surprising twists and turns that reveal the tastes of a large family often sharply at odds with one another about the fortune the house symbolized.