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Table of contents :
Front Cover
Copyright © 1976
CONTENTS
I The Father
II The Son
III The Brothers
IV The Cousins
EPILOGUE
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
NOTES
The Father
The Son
The Brothers
The Cousins
The Family
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX
Back flap
Back cover
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THE ROCKEFELLERS An American Dynasty PETER COLLIER & DAVID HOROWITZ
Peter Collier and David Horowitz
THE ROCKEFELLERS
An American Dynasty )
his is the story of
an American
dynasty. It is the story of the father, built the fortune. Of the son, who cleansed the name. Of the Brothers, who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends. And of the Cousins, who often wish they had inherited neither.
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Avery Rockefeller \810-1906?) II
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Through four generations, the name has been synonymous with great wealth: through three, with great works. Now
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The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
My exposure to the Rockefellers goes back, of course, as far as inom can remember, so pervasive are the institutions members of the family created. Indeed, my exposure to the Rockefellers is far greater than I knew prior to reading this book. Notably, this includes my having attended Union Theological Seminary in New York, all unknowing of the financial support it had received from the family and its foundations. I did, however, know of a more anställda connection between at least one Rockefeller and the seminary, one of my floor neighbors in Hastings Hall being engaged to marry a member of the family.
It doesn't seem that Messrs. Collier and Horowitz had quit
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The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty
This is the story of an American dynasty: the father, who built the fortune, the son who cleansed the name, the brothers who manipulated both the name and the fortune to their own ends, and the cousins who often wish they had inherited neither. Cast against the backdrop of America’s history is a spectacular array of characters: a bigamist, a robber baron, a philanthropist, a world-weary cynic, a drifting divorcee, polluters, environmentalists, art lovers and money manipulators.
“[An] absorbing history of the Rockefeller family... a swiftly paced, extensively researched work of social history, a tale of family tensions and neuroses, of successes and failures in private and in public, all of it unfolding against a backdrop of money, influence and power.” — Steven R. Weisman, The New York Times
“[A]n exceptionally good book” — John Kenneth Galbraith, The New York Review of Books
“[Collier and Horowitz] present a sensitive family biography, mo