Biography john d rockefeller jr books

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          John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a Portrait

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          Raymond B. Fosdick.John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a portrait

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        3. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (January 29, – May 11, ) was an American financier and philanthropist.
        4. John Davison Rockefeller Jr. was an American financier and philanthropist.

          5. Fosdick has written a biography in its formal meaning — fully documented, chronologically precise — and not simply a personal tribute to a friend of more than forty years’ standing. The book, in consequence, is both biography and history, satisfying all the rigorous canons of personal and social analysis.

          It is to be read as part of the history of our time and as the record of a man of as much consequence to us as have been those other leaders and creators among his contemporaries who have affected public conduct. What we have here, then, is the narrative of a rich man who overcame the almost impossible handicaps of great wealth, limited religious upbringing, and a narrow and protective family circle.

          He might have become defensive and suspicious, or a recluse cultivating private and expensive hobbies, or a popular leader and therefore a demagogue (such patte