Ron Chernow's first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Award for the year's best study of American culture. His second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993 and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year's best nonfiction books. In reviewing his recent collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, The New York Times called the author "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades and chose the paperback original as one of the year's Notable Books.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel. . . . Wonderfully fluent and compelling." --The New York Times
"A triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Rockefeller Sr. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind."--The New York Times Book Review
In this endlessly engrossing book, National Book Award-winning biographer Ron Chernow devotes his penetrating powers of scholarship and insight to the Jekyll and Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists--and an utter enigma.
        Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller's private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subject's troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him "to give all I could"; his devotion to his family; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country's most colorful codger. is a magnificent biography --balanced, revelatory, and elegantly written.
"Important and impressive. . . . Reveals the man behind both the mask and the myth."--The Wall Street Journal
"One of the great American biographies. . . . [Chernow] writes with rich impartiality. He turns the machinations of Standard Oil . . . into fascinating social history."--Time
不亏是得了大奖的传记著作,我被这本书的思路、词汇、分析、内容彻底折服了。 里面有各种分析,性格、家庭、心理等等,你能看到这个后来成长为世界第一富豪的孩子从小到大的成长历程,他命运仿佛冥冥中被注定一样;所有的有利、不利因素都一步步塑造着这个巨人的崛起。
评分我最近才发现,原来这本书有一个减缩的版本。 即《洛克菲勒:一个关于财富的神话》,虽然减缩版我没读过,但我想一定不会差,因为这本工商巨子里也有许多索然无味的东西。 减缩版会是精华,而且比这本要便宜多了。 建议仅供参考!
评分洛克菲勒生平特点:极为沉默寡言,神秘莫测,善于伪装,条理清晰,口齿伶俐,很有激情,风趣 养成了尽可能不露心声的习惯 节俭,自立,勤俭和不懈的创业精神 他一向具备一种非同寻常的自我保护能力,压制那些令他不快的记忆,只谈那些突出表明他刚毅之处的事情。 早年的苦...
评分本书蛮厚 后面的附录也有几百页 用词用句非常难啃 买了几年了还没读完 为此还买了本中文的来对照 中文的国内大概有几个不同的版本 翻译的内容很多都偷懒 让我情何以堪 不知道读完这本还需要几年。。。不过他孙子的自传我很快就看完了
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