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... read more
Foreword
Prelude: Poison Tongue
1. The Flimflam Man
2. Fires of Revival
3. Bound to Be Rich
4. Baptism in Business
5. The Auction
6. The Poetry of the Age
7. Millionaires' Row
8. Conspirators
9. The New Monarch
10. Sphinx
11. The Holy Family
12. Insurrection in the Oil Fields
13. Seat of Empire
14. The Puppeteer
15. Widow's Funeral
16. A Matter of Trust
17. Captains of Erudition
18. Nemesis
19. The Dauphin
20. The Standard Oil Crowd
21. The Enthusiast
22. Avenging Angel
23. Faith of Fools
24. The Millionaires' Special
25. The Codger
26. The World's Richest Fugitive
27. Judgment Day
28. Benevolent Trust
29. Massacre
30. Introvert and Extrovert
31. Confessional
32. Dynastic Succession
33. Past, Present, Future
34. Heirs
35. See You in Heaven
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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