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Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Fast-Growth Firm 28 reviews
Verne Harnish
Gazelles Publishing, 2006
Most important book around for going from $1million to $50million
Bring organization to your organization. Hold people accountable for their work. These are some of the biggest problems I hear over and over from entrepreneurs who have emerged from the start-up phase and are trying to grow their business into a profitable machine. This book is an easy read and gives you all the tools you need. A must have for anyone looking to take their business beyond ...
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Memoirs 32 reviews
David Rockefeller
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Excellent Biography
The book tells of a life in one of America's prominent families. It's very interesting to know how one handles wealth, power and influence in the world's most powerful nation. I have learned so much. So will you out there. Give it a read. It's one of the best biographies on the shelf.
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Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller5 reviews
Steve Weinberg
W. W. Norton, 2008
The Start of Investigative Journalism
Some journalists revel in muckraking reportage, and it doesn't make any difference to them that "muckraking" has been used as a term of opprobrium. There was a time when there was no tradition of newspapers doing investigative reporting; that tradition had to be invented. One of the inventors was Ida Tarbell who let the nation know how John D. Rockefeller was misusing corporate power. She ...
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The Art of Rockefeller Center3 reviews
Christine Roussel
W. W. Norton, 2005
Lavish, Beautifully Done Book
Built in the middle of the depression, Rockefeller Center became a part of and a symbol of America. The buildings of Rockefeller Center were not designed as the steel and glass monoliths of today. Art from some of the best artists of the day was incorporated into virtually all aspects of the building. The most famous is the statue of Prometheus delivering fire to the mortals of the earth amidst ...
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The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American ... 7 reviews
Charles R. Morris
Holt Paperbacks, 2006
Great summary of Economic History
This is a great book for looking at the economic history of the United States. It covers mostly the four mentioned in the title but what was really fantastic and what deserves that extra star is that it covers the economic developments on the side. It looks at how our economy outpace Europe and the shift to make America that extra superpower. WE also have a look at how our ability to move west ...
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. 125 reviews
Ron Chernow
Vintage, 1999
Bigger than life personalities?
Rockefeller is reported to have searched endlessly for golf balls lost in an attempt to recover them, yet could nearly buy the world - why?
Objective biographies are important to show that it is rarely money or greed that inspires the mind of man; it is the pursuit of the solution to the particular problem that he has defined worthy of solution. Both great inventions and great works of art ...
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The Rockefeller File10 reviews
Gary Allen
'76 Press, 1976
This book brings the globalist conspiracy into focus 30 years after the fact!
The Rockefeller File was written over thirty years ago but so much of what this book claimed that the global elite have in store for the world has come to pass and proven to be true that it really makes your jaw drop.
One example are plans for something along the lines of the European Union, NAFTA, and North American Union being implemented, which has all of course come to pass. Another is ...
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The House the Rockefellers Built: A Tale of Money, Taste, and Power in Twentieth-Century America (John MacRae ...4 reviews
Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell
Holt Paperbacks, 2008
Rockerfellers House
I read this book from an architect's viewpoint, and it squares with my experience that there is something about homebuilding that is intensely personal. Much has been written about visionary Designers. In fact, it is the clients who hire and steer those designers who are writing their world views large. I visited Kykuit once and thought the design was quirky for a pile from the mansion ...
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.43 reviews
Ron Chernow
Vintage, 2004
An unbiased look
I was very impressed with the skill of Ron Chernow when I read "Alexander Hamilton". After such an impressive work I decided that I would take on "Titan" which deals with the life of John D. Rockefeller. Chernow did not disappoint, and in some ways this may be the better of the biographies.
"Titan" illuminates Rockefeller duplicity as a pious man that showed no quarter in his business ...
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Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center26 reviews
Daniel Okrent
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
A Page Turner Full of Fascinating Characters and Stories
This lively narrative history is full of fascinating characters and stories. The humbly powerful John D., Jr. (who financed it), the Victorian president of Columbia (who leased the land), Nelson Rockefeller (who took over command of it), and the extraordinary team of builders and architects who designed and built it--they and many others truly come to life. How do you build a vast commercial ...
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Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst For Conservation
Robin W. Winks
Island Press, 1997
From early childhood, Laurance S. Rockefeller was deeply interested in nature and conservation. Influenced by his family's long history of philanthropy, Rockefeller has used his considerable fortune to support environmental goals, even making conservation and historical preservation his life's work. Now 87, he is the subject of Robin W. Winks's biography, Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation . Over the years, Rockefeller has ...
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The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center2 reviews
Christine Roussel
W. W. Norton, 2006
Art in the environment
I recently walked round the Rockefeller Center to look at all the public art and this lovely little paperback was invaluable. Without it I doubt you will find the eighty or so works of art in the book that are on walls everywhere even though the majority are on exteriors. Items like Lee Lawrie's Atlas statue or the stunning Wisdom wall-relief are well-known but how many visitors realise that ...
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Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family1 review
Bernice Kert
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
an inspiring woman, a fabulous read...
An unplanned visit to Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate in Westchester County New York led me to this book. The tour guide expressed his admiration for Abby Aldrich Rockefeller as he led us through her famous home. He recommended this biography, and from the moment I picked it up, I was delighted! As we toured the house, we viewed the wonderful collection of modern art and heard the stories of how ...
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John D. Rockefeller: Anointed with Oil (Oxford Portraits)
Grant Segall
Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
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Mr. Rockefeller's Roads: The Untold Story of Acadia's Carriage Roads and Their Creator1 review
Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Down East Books, 1990
Registered Landscape Architect
A beautiful book evoking imagery of a time past that had been very instrumental in inspiring and providing access to America's love and appeciation of nature. In this book we are shown how these roads led us to our collective love of natural beauty in America - literally and metaphorically - in an historically accurate and academic work by the author whose love of these roads in Acadia and of ...
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The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda (David Rockefeller Center Series on Latin American ...1 review
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 1999
A Great Edited Book on US-Latin America Relations
This edited book brings together the top experts on US-Latin American relations, including Coatsworth, Whitehead, Bulmer-Thomas, and Dunkerley. Each chapter is a good read, and provides powerful and original analyses. The book contains several overview chapters which, if the reader is not familiar with the history of US-Latin American relations, will provide sufficient background to dive into ...
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Dear Father, Dear Son: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller and Jr.
J.W. Ernst
Fordham University Press, 1994
Many biographies of John D. Rockefeller and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. have been compiled- some have used bits of the original correspondence presented here and tried to show opposing interests between John D. Rockefeller and his son. Still others were written without correspondence at all. This collection of never-before-published letters traces the history of the transfer of the Rockefeller fortune over the course of fifty years. It illustrates ...
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CNBC 24/7 Trading: Around the Clock, Around the World12 reviews
Barbara Rockefeller
Wiley, 2002
Fair warning
A recent amazon.com reviewer states incorrectly that Barbara Rockefeller's 24/7 Trading fails to note that the increasingly wired world raises volatility and affects the correlations among global stocks because this is one of the main points in the book. To wit: "...the developed world is so wired together these days that a drop in the Dow and the Nasdaq is often followed by an equivalent drop ...
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The Rockefeller Family Home: Kykuit3 reviews
Ann Rockefeller Roberts
Abbeville Press, 1998
Hudson Valley Treasure-Trove
As early as the 17th century, Dutch New Yorkers built family compounds in the Hudson River Valley north of Manhattan. Completed in 1913 for Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, Kykuit (the names comes from the Dutch, "lookout")has been home to four generations of Rockefeller family members. Now owned by the National Trust for Historic Sites, Kykuit has only recently been open to the ...
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