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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: A Portrait in Oils
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: A Portrait in Oils
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: A Portrait in Oils
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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.
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Release dateDec 14, 2015
ISBN9781616409739
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER: A Portrait in Oils
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John K. Winkler

John Kennedy Winkler (February 3, 1891 - July 31, 1958) was an American author and contributor to The New Yorker from 1926-1931. He was born in Camden, South Carolina, in 1891, the son of Cornelius Lawrence and Sarah Doby (Kennedy) Winkler. He attended school in South Carolina, as well as New York, where he joined the staff of the New York American in 1908. He served as war correspondent in Mexico in 1914. He left the New York American in 1925 to become a freelance magazine writer and biographer. He contributed numerous articles and fiction to publications such as Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Liberty, Red Book and Saturday Evening Post. He began writing articles for The New Yorker in 1926 and published a number of biographies on famous individuals, including Andrew Carnegie, Woodrow Wilson, James Buchanan Duke, William Randolph Hearst, J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and F. W. Woolworth. Winkler was married to Marian Worthington Marsh and resided in Port Washington, New York, where he died in 1958 at the age of 67.

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