Breaking Rockefeller

Author : Peter B. Doran
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698170773

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Breaking Rockefeller by Peter B. Doran Pdf

The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr., and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. In 1889, John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the U.S. government is wary of challenging the great “anaconda” of Standard Oil. The Standard never loses—that is until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell. A riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuel’s rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding’s conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller’s monopoly. The beginning of the twentieth century is a time when vast fortunes were made and lost. Taking readers through the rough and tumble of East London’s streets, the twilight turmoil of czarist Russia, to the halls of the British Parliament, and right down Broadway in New York City, Peter Doran offers a richly detailed, fresh perspective on how Samuel and Deterding beat the world’s richest man at his own game.

Author : Darren Dochuk
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541673946

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Anointed with Oil by Darren Dochuk Pdf

A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As prize-winning historian Darren Dochuk reveals, from the earliest discovery of oil in America during the Civil War, citizens saw oil as the nation's special blessing and its peculiar burden, the source of its prophetic mission in the world. Over the century that followed and down to the present day, the oil industry's leaders and its ordinary workers together fundamentally transformed American religion, business, and politics -- boosting America's ascent as the preeminent global power, giving shape to modern evangelical Christianity, fueling the rise of the Republican Right, and setting the terms for today's political and environmental debates. Ranging from the Civil War to the present, from West Texas to Saudi Arabia to the Alberta Tar Sands, and from oil-patch boomtowns to the White House, this is a sweeping, magisterial book that transforms how we understand our nation's history.

Author : Richard James DeSocio
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524692483

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Clash of Dynasties by Richard James DeSocio Pdf

Clash of Dynasties: Why Gov. Nelson Rockefeller Killed JFK, RFK, and Ordered the Watergate Break-In to End the Presidential Hopes of Ted Kennedy binds together the crimes of the century. Kennedy had a dream for the nation, but Rockefeller had his own nefarious ambition to be president. Rockefeller employed a staff of seventy, paid for by Rockefeller Foundation funds. Actually, he used his staff to serve the 1960 Kennedy election in the hopes that a Kennedy victory would destroy Richard Nixon as a viable Republican national candidate. However, after accepting his support, the Kennedy brothers turned on Rockefeller who had become a Republican frontrunner in the 1964 presidential race. When the allegations surfaced that Rockefeller was using foundation money, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy began preparing charges against the governor with the intent of sinking Nelsons political aspirations. Succinctly stated, Rockefeller beat them to the punch by arranging the JFK assassination, although losing the Republican nomination in the waning hours of the primary. Rockefellers misuse of foundation funds touched off a congressional investigation as well. This sounds very similar to the recent allegations surrounding the Clinton Foundation. Most people will be surprised to learn that the foundation is located on the forty-second floor of the Time-Life Building located in Rockefeller Center. Until very recently, the Rockefeller Foundation was on the forty-first floor. It was Time-Life Inc. that purchased the Zapruder Film and hid it for twelve years. It shows Kennedys head whipping backwards by a bullet strike to his forehead, firmly suggesting a conspiracy. Representing thirty-five years of research, Clash of Dynasties is much more than a whodunit bookit is about how the Rockefellerocracy still wields malevolent power from behind a secret network of 501(c)3s philanthropic foundationsRockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, etc. Visit rockefellerocracy.com.

Author : Ida Tarbell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948742160

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The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell Pdf

Part of Belt's Revivals Series, a classic of muckraking journalism with a new introduction by Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia and Pure America . Cleveland oil tycoon Jo

Author : Daniel Okrent
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780142001776

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Great Fortune by Daniel Okrent Pdf

In this hugely appealing book, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, acclaimed author and journalist Daniel Okrent weaves together themes of money, politics, art, architecture, business, and society to tell the story of the majestic suite of buildings that came to dominate the heart of midtown Manhattan and with it, for a time, the heart of the world. At the center of Okrent's riveting story are four remarkable individuals: tycoon John D. Rockefeller, his ambitious son Nelson Rockefeller, real estate genius John R. Todd, and visionary skyscraper architect Raymond Hood. In the tradition of David McCullough's The Great Bridge, Ron Chernow's Titan, and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, Great Fortune is a stunning tribute to an American landmark that captures the heart and spirit of New York at its apotheosis.

Author : Gerard Colby,Charlotte Dennett
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781504048392

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Thy Will Be Done by Gerard Colby,Charlotte Dennett Pdf

A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”

Author : Margo Hammond,Ellen Heltzel
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780786727001

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Between the Covers by Margo Hammond,Ellen Heltzel Pdf

With wit and wisdom, the bibliophile's Ebert & Roeper recommend more than 600 books based on what women care about most. Between the Covers is organized around their wide-ranging curiosity—about themselves, friends and family, the larger world—and their concerns, from health to sex to managing their finances. With such sections as “Babes We Love” (Role Models Real and Imagined), “The Babe Inside” (Focusing on Body and Soul), and “Love, Sex & Second Chances,” this unique collection of fiction and nonfiction reflects how women really read.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : United States
ISBN : UCSC:32106009192615

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U.S. News & World Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Karenna Gore Schiff
Publisher : Miramax
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015064698361

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Lighting the Way by Karenna Gore Schiff Pdf

This book offers a study of nine women who transformed modern America through their battle against inequity and social injustice, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mother Jones, Alice Hamilton, Frances Perkins, Virginia Durr, and Septima Poinsette Clark, among others.

Author : David Rockefeller
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812969733

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Memoirs by David Rockefeller Pdf

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with world leaders from Zhou Enlai and Mikhail Gorbachev to Anwar Sadat and Ariel Sharon, his service to every American president since Eisenhower, his remarkable world travels and personal dedication to his home city of New York—here, the first time a Rockefeller has told his own story, is an account of a truly rich life.

Author : Charles R. Morris
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429935029

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The Tycoons by Charles R. Morris Pdf

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:561736093

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John D. Rockefeller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : UVA:X000041994

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John D. Rockefeller by Allan Nevins Pdf

Author : Allan Nevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:20500910956

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John D. Rockefeller; the heroic age of American enterprise by Allan Nevins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1975-10
Category : Legislation
ISBN : PSU:000009635449

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National Journal Reports by Anonim Pdf