Nelson Rockefeller - Hardcover

Watkins, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038524696X ISBN 13: 9780385246965

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

The first in a two-volume, full-length biography of Nelson Rockefeller offers a complex portrait of the energetic, ruthless, and magnetic politician, statesman, capitalist, and public figure, based on government archives, hundreds of interviews, and family papers. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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the biographer's art, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller is the first full-length biography of one of the most powerful, magnetic, fascinating figures on the twentieth-century stage.

Of all the great American dynastic families, few could match the combined wealth, power, and influence of the Rockefellers. And of all the Rockefellers, none was more determined to use these advantages than Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Nelson was never content to live off the fame and fortune due him as a Rockefeller. His imperious grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, and intimidating father, John Jr., set standards and boundaries that Nelson blithely ignored. He pushed for position within the family, and then broke a family taboo by taking his ambition to the forbidden world of politics. A devoted family man, he took many lovers with an almost casual sense of droit du seigneur. He surrounded himself with brilliant, devoted subordinates; he flattered and cajoled more powerful peo

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 038524696X
• ISBN 13: 9780385246965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 875