Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
#2686 of 3,809 books · #965 in Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (1998).
"Titan" draws on unprecedented access to John D. Rockefeller's private papers to reconstruct the story of his troubled origins and his single-minded pursuit of wealth.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- ISBN-13
- 9780679757030
- Genre
- Topics
- John D. RockefellerStandard Oil and the oil industryWealth and business empire building
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyShortlistedMajor(1998)
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