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A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel. . . . Wonderfully fluent and compelling. <i>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. <i>The New York Times Book Review Important and impressive. . . . Reveals the man behind both the mask and the myth. <i>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. <i>Time</i>

-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 -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 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 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 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 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

-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 -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 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 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 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 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

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Ron Chernow’s bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center and has received seven honorary doctoral degrees. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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