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"No Help Wanted" signs decorated the doors of Cleveland storekeepers and merchants in early September, 1855, when sixteen-year-old John Rockefeller set out to seek employment for his budding talents. It was a hard year in the West. For days and weeks the youth tramped the streets, grave, self-centered, tenacious in his quest.
-from "A Pious Youth Gets a Flying Start"
What was the world's first billionaire really like? This highly entertaining work, by an acclaimed business biographer, seeks to explode the "shadowy myth" of John D. Rockefeller and reveal the "rare and astonishing personality" behind it.
From his humble roots in Ohio, where he learned thrift and industry as the bookkeeper of a dockside warehouse, to the death threats this "modern Machiavelli" received during the early years of Standard Oil, to his ascendancy to the rank of "the most detested man in the country"-when churches refused his donations as tainted money-and his subsequent formation of the philanthropic Rockefeller Foundation, this is a knowingly ironic and subtly witty work of biography.
JOHN K. WINKLER is also the author of W.R. Hearst: An American Phenomenon (1928) and Morgan the Magnificent, or The Life of J. Pierpont Morgan (1930).
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Chris Brown
reviewed John D.: A Portrait in Oils on May 23, 2011
John D.: A Portrait in Oils
Although a fascinating topic, the author presented the material in a very disjointed and scattered manner with a tremendous amount of repetition. In some instancs I found myself going back a page or two thinking I was rereading pages only to find material being repeated that very closely resembled what I had just read.
This author wrote a very important article in Barron's regarding the Madoff case. I can only say that each chapter in the book feels like a totally separate article written as a complete and total story - with much detail repeated from prior chapters.
Many non-fiction books today read like fiction with a beginning a middle and an end. Not this one. The author was introducing new characters on page 247, at a detail level that really was unnecessary and very uninteresting.
I would strongly have suggested the author introduce all the players at the beginning, then define hedge funds, the role of the SEC, etc., next discuss who played what roles, discussed how the investors were recruited, then identified how Madoff almost got caught so many times and then confessed - in this order. Instead, this type of information was pretty much repeated in each chapter with different players being introduced each time. I would have finished off the book with a bit more about the victims.
If you are interested in the fine points of the Madoff case, feel free to read this book, but I would suggest doing a lot of skimming to bypass the repeated data and the information that doesn't matter.
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