書名：Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr洛剋菲勒傳

作者：Ron Chernow榮·切爾諾
齣版社名稱：Vintage
齣版時間：2004
語種：英文
ISBN：9781400077304
商品尺寸：15.5 x 4.1 x 23.2 cm
包裝：平裝
頁數：832
★書寫美國首富洛剋菲勒的創業人生，揭露鮮為人知的創富秘訣

★一部美國財富的纍積史，一本美國社會生活的大百科全書
★美國國傢圖書奬作者切爾諾撰寫
★福布斯的很有價值的經商必讀書
★我心中的賺錢偶像隻有一個，他就是洛剋菲勒！——比爾?蓋茨

約翰·戴維森·洛剋菲勒（John Davison Rockefeller，1839年－1937年），20世紀早期世界首富、石油大王及的慈善傢。1870年他創立標準石油公司，在全盛期壟斷瞭全美90%的石油市場及大部分世界市場，成為美國曆史上及世界曆史上的首位超過10億美元的富翁。他去世時，總財産約14億美元，相當於現今3000億美元以上，因此被普遍視為人類曆史上的首富。他一生也推動瞭事業和教育事業的巨大發展，創辦瞭芝加哥大學、洛剋菲勒大學及協和醫學院（今北京協和醫學院）。建立瞭聯閤國總部大樓、洛剋菲勒中心等地標。 洛剋菲勒是一個富有傳奇色彩與爭議性的人物，是一個古怪、狡詐、冷酷無情，又多有創見、令人難忘的人物。他以殘酷的競爭，打壓吞並對手及創建托拉斯著稱，同時又是一個虔誠的新教徒，提倡節儉，且不時解囊助人，其慷慨程度為前人所不及（生前捐獻瞭5.5億美元財富）。
本書作者發掘瞭大量的洛剋菲勒的公開和私密的生活檔案，透露瞭很多洛剋菲勒的競爭手段、創富秘訣及許多鮮為人知的傢族醜聞、悲劇和不幸，細緻入微地刻畫齣瞭一個性格復雜、引人入勝的人物。Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr是的洛剋菲勒傳記，展示瞭洛剋菲勒的創富過程，也是一本揭示19至20世紀美國財富積纍及社會生活的百科全書，很值得一讀。

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton: here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.—the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists—and an utter enigma.
Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller’s private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects’ troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. But he also uncovers the profound religiosity that drove him “to give all I could”; his devotion to his father; and the wry sense of humor that made him the country’s most colorful codger. Titan is a magnificent biography—balanced, revelatory, elegantly written.

Review
“A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel.... Wonderfully fluent and compelling.”  — The New York Times

“A triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it brings John D. Rockefeller Sr. to life through sustained narrative portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind.”  — The New York Times Book Review

“Important and impressive.... Reveals the man behind both the mask and the myth.”  —The Wall Street Journal

“One of the great American biographies.... [Chernow] writes with rich impartiality. He turns the machinations of Standard Oil... into fascinating social history.”  — Time
榮·切爾諾，美國的傳記作傢及書作傢。他的第1部作品《摩根傢族》獲得美國國傢圖書奬，第二部作品《沃伯格傢族》1993年作為商業類著作被授予埃剋爾斯奬。

Ron Chernow’s bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center and has received seven honorary doctoral degrees. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Around 1723, Johann Peter Rockefeller, a miller, gathered up his wife and five children, set sail for Philadelphia, and settled on a farm In Somerville and then Amwell, New jersey, where he evidently flourished and acquired large landholdings. More than a decade later, his cousin Diell Rockefeller left southwest Germany and moved to Germantown, New York. Diell’s granddaughter Christina married her distant relative William, one of Johann’s grandsons. Never particularly sentimental about his European forebears. John D. Rockefeller did erect a monument to the patriarch. Johann Peter at his burial site in Flemington, New Jersey. The marriage of William and Christina produced a son named Godfrey Rockefeller, who was the grandfather of the oil titan and a most unlikely progenitor of the clan, In 1806.
Godfrey married Lucy Avery in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, despite the grave of her family.
Establishing a pattern that would be replicated by Rockefeller’s own mother, Lucy had in her faint’s disparaging view, married down. Her ancestress had emigrated (rum Kin. England, to Salem, Nlassachuseus, around 1630, from part of the Puritan tide. As they became settled and gentrified, the versatile Averys spawned ministers, soldiers, civic leaders, explorers, and traders, not to mention a bold clutch of Indian lighters. During the American Revolution, eleven Averys perished g1orkusIv in the battle of Groton. While the Rulefellers’ “noble” roots required some poetic License and liberal embellishment, Lucy could justly claim descent from Edmund Ironside, the English king, who was crowned In 1016.
Godfrey Rockefeller was sadly mismatched with his enterprising wife. He had a stunted, impoverished look and a hangdog air of perpetual defeat. Taller than her husband, a fiery Baptist of commanding presence, Lucy was rawboned and confident, with a vigorous step and alert blue eyes. A Former schoolteacher, she was better educated than Godfrey Even John , never given to invidious comments about relatives. Tactfully conceded, “My grandmother was a brave woman. Her husband was not so brave as she.” If Caodfrey contributed the Rockefeller coloring—bluish gray eves, light brown hair—Lucy introduced the rangy frame later notable among the men. Enjoying robust energy and buoyant health, Lucy had ten children, with the third. William Avery Rockefeller, born In Granger, New York, In 1810. While it is easy enough to date the birth of Rockefeller’s father, teams of frazzled reporters would one day exhaust themselves trying to establish the date of his death.