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Book-- Titan: The Life and Times of John D. Rockefeller , by Ron Chernow;
Book -- Titan: The Life and Times of John D. Rockefeller , by Ron Chernow;
For example, Ron Chernow's Titan , a biography of John D. Rockefeller Sr., held the ninth position on the New York Times nonfiction list the week of Aug. 17.
As Chernow himself puts it: "With additional oil strikes in California, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), Kansas, and Illinois in the early 1900s, the industry became too vast and far-flung for even Standard Oil to control.
This story is told well in Chernow's chapter "Captains of Erudition," which describes the hellish wrangling between Rockefeller and the free-spending William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago.
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