Titan 在线电子书 图书标签: 传记 Biography 英文原版 管理 人物 Rockefeller 经济 美国
发表于2024-05-15
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评分洛克菲勒是个基督徒。他总认为上帝会让他富有,同时也为了不辜负上帝他很勤恳的工作。很奇妙的想法。
评分虽然不如摩根家族出色,但也非常之精彩,Chernow的文笔真是好,期待Warburgs
评分工商巨子的英文原版
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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.
John D. 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. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as we may ever have" (Kirkus Reviews). Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist.
Born 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. Branded "the Octopus" by legions of muckrakers, the trust refined and marketed nearly 90 percent of the oil produced in America.
Rockefeller was likely the most controversial businessman in our nation's history. Critics charged that his empire was built on unscrupulous tactics: grand-scale collusion with the railroads, predatory pricing, industrial espionage, and wholesale bribery of political officials. The titan 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 new evidence of Rockefeller's misdeeds, Chernow discards the stereotype of the cold-blooded monster to sketch an unforgettably human portrait of a quirky, eccentric original. A devout Baptist and temperance advocate, Rockefeller gave money more generously--his chosen philanthropies included the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago, and what is today Rockefeller University--than anyone before him. Titan presents a finely nuanced portrait of a fascinating, complex man, synthesizing his public and private lives and disclosing numerous family scandals, tragedies, and misfortunes that have never before come to light.
John D. Rockefeller's story captures a pivotal moment in American history, documenting the dramatic post-Civil War shift from small business to the rise of giant corporations that irrevocably transformed the nation. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves.
From the Hardcover edition.
1、他很少有过孩子那种发自内心的快乐和无忧无虑。作为一个肩负职责的小大人,他养成了一种终身不变的自我夸大的责任感。 2、记住别人告诉你的东西很重要,比你自己早已知道的东西更重要。 3、开采商们对他的愤怒实际上是出于嫉妒和虚伪。这些开发商……坚持认为运费折扣是错...
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
评分 评分1、他很少有过孩子那种发自内心的快乐和无忧无虑。作为一个肩负职责的小大人,他养成了一种终身不变的自我夸大的责任感。 2、记住别人告诉你的东西很重要,比你自己早已知道的东西更重要。 3、开采商们对他的愤怒实际上是出于嫉妒和虚伪。这些开发商……坚持认为运费折扣是错...
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