David rockefeller biography book

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Memoirs

January 12,

This is a dry, bland, uninteresting autobiography. By trying so hard not to offend, it offends. It offends a literary person’s sense of trust in the author. It offends a historian’s sense of love for details and facts. It offends a political scientist’s search for the motivations of the actors involved. It offends the common person’s expectation that by paying $ for a book that is so big and heavy ( pages, pounds) they will be happy with it and it will be worth it. It isn’t. Persons wanting more value for their money, and who want to read a more entertaining and animated autobiography should try, for instance, Errol Flynn’s “My Wicked, Wicked Ways ”, Alfred P. Sloan’s “My Life At General Motors”, Emma Goldman’s “Living My Life”, Armand Hammer’s “Hammer!”, or Hedy Lamarr’s “Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman”. The lives of these authors jump out at you from the pages of these books and take vivid three-dimensional form. They are not afraid of telling you how they

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Memoirs

David Rockefeller was born in , the youngest child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., one of the richest men in the United States, and the great patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. He graduated from Harvard College in the depths of the Depression, when the capitalist order, which his grandfather had helped to create, was under relentless attack. He studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D.
He worked briefly for New York City's flamboyant mayor Fiorello La Guardia before enlisting in the U.S. Army in His service as an intelligence officer in North Africa and France brought him into contact with many of the individuals who would soon dominate European politics and gave him a unique perspective on the events and personalities that eventuated in the "twilight struggle" of the Cold War.
Rockefeller joined the Chase bank in as an assistant manager in the Foreign Department and rose through the ranks to become chair

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David Rockefeller.Memoirs

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with world leaders from Zhou Enlai and Mikhail Gorbachev to Anwar Sadat and Ariel Sharon, his service to every American president since Eisenhower, his remarkable world travels and anställda dedication to his home city of New York—here, the ﬁrst time a Rockefeller has told his own story, is an account of a truly rich life. Google Books review

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David Rockefeller, biography, Rockefeller family, banks and banking

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Rockefeller, David, "Memoirs" (). The Rockefellers.