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The Rockefellers

An American Dynasty

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The Rockefellers

By: Peter Collier, David Horowitz
Narrated by: Michael Anthony
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This is the story of an American dynasty. It begins with John D. Rockefeller, Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry. It follows Rockefeller junior as he built the charities and foundations that made the name a public institution, and it tracks the lives of the junior Rockefeller's five brothers, including David, whose name became synonymous with the world of banking and finance, and Nelson, future governor and presidential aspirant.

This is a saga of immense dimensions cast against the backdrop of our country's history with a spectacular array of characters. Collier and Horowitz reveal the myths, rumors, scandals, and, above all, the endlessly enthralling, often shocking truth about this unparalleled American family.

©1976 Peter Collier and David Horowitz (P)1993 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Americas Entertainment & Celebrities Historical Celebrity
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Critic reviews

“A tale of family tensions and neuroses, of money, influence, and power…vivid, absorbing…remarkable!”

(New York Times Book Review)

“A startling tale emerges, shattering all we know and believe about the Rockefellers, destroying the legend brutally with significant revelations—and yet, winning a depth of sympathy for Rockefellers which three generations of PR men have not been able to manufacture.”

(Washington Post Book World)

“Impressive and intelligent…Skillfully organized and presented so that it matters—not only to those curious about the Rockefellers, but to anyone curious about money and power in our society.”

(Newsweek)

“A skillful portrait of great wealth…A vast sweep of world-shaping episodes, dates, and names.”

(Houston Chronicle)
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The book give us insight into the birth and rise of the Rockefeller family in an unbiased style. The book is trying to focus on the facts and not just display the family in one extreme. Althought the view they present us mosty positive, it’s justified by highlighting how much effort and money they spent on trying to rehabilitate the family’s image in the eyes of the masses, who don’t necessarily want or can understand the pressure they had on them simply because of the amount of money and power they controlled.

A fair history of the Rickefeller family

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very interesting book but such a shame that the recording is a little echoey in places and also that the narrator cannot pronouce french words correctly

the rockefellers

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Interesting listen. I was hoping for a few secretes but as the very last line clearly states, this book was heavily vetted. Authors very clever in some small passages though as they either immediately or at a latter point completely contradict aforementioned statements. eg: "The Rockefellers had no close ties with the communist Russians" Later "No Americans got the red carpet treatment in Moscow like the Rockefellers"

It's in-between the lines

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I am only part-way through this and am struggling. The narrator’s voice is simply awful, he sounds like a robot and has no charisma in his delivery whatsoever.

Read by a robot

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