The Rockefellers, Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Rockefellers, Peter Collier and David Horowitz
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The Rockefellers

Author: Peter Collier and David Horowitz

Narrator: Michael Anthony

Unabridged: 30 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/22/2005


Synopsis

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 our countrys history is a spectacular array of characters: a bigamist, a robber baron, a philanthropist, a worldweary cynic, a drifting divorcee, polluters, environmentalists, art lovers and money manipulators. Collier and Horowitz reveal the myths, scandals, rumors and, above all, the endlessly enthralling, often shocking truth about this unparalleled American dynasty.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Erik

My exposure to Collier and Horowitz began in high school with a subscription to their estimable 'Ramparts' magazine, continued into graduate school with a reading of their muckraking 'The Kennedys' and now steps back to their previous familial biography, 'The Rockefellers'. My exposure to the Rockefe......more

Goodreads review by Maku

One of the collaborative biographies about American dynasties by DAVID HOROWITZ before he became a fringe right-wing sycophant. My favorite part was the beginning of the family during the robber-baron period of American history and how the ascetic prematurely hairless icon founded one of the greates......more

Fourth generation Stephen Rockefeller was, “very uncomfortable with the wealth that I have … I’m fully convinced there is no rational justification for extreme privilege and the accumulation of vast wealth.” This generation came to adulthood in the turmoil of the sixties - many forsaking their conse......more