Oxford Portraits are informative and insightful biographies of people whose lives shaped their times and continue to influence ours.

This title examines the remarkable life of John D. Rockefeller.

Reproduction of the original: Random Reminiscences by John D. Rockefeller

Although many stories about Rockefeller have been published over the years, many more remain to be told, and in Oreos and Dubonnet, Rockefeller's former advance man and personal assistant Joseph H. Boyd Jr. and former political reporter ...

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.

The life of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century businessman and philanthropist, tracing his rise from worker to oil multi-millionaire and founder of the Standard Oil Company.

This book is at once a history of Nelson A. Rockefeller's fifteen-year governorship and a balanced assessment of his performance.

They are America’s shadowy guides with their fingers into hundreds of pies. And here is the carefully researched tale of who they are, how they operate and what they’re done with what they’re won. Won by inheritance, that is.