SECOND VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, MARCH 2004
Copyright © 1998 by Ron Chernow
Family tree illustration copyright © 1998 by Anita Karl and Jim Kemp
All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, New York, in 1998.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Random House edition as follows:
Chernow, Ron.
Titan : the life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Ron Chernow.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839–1937. 2. Capitalists and financiers—United States—Biography. 3. Industrialists—United States—Biography. 4. Philanthropists—United States—Biography.
I. Title.
CT275.R75C47 1997 338.7’622382’092—dc21
[B] 97-33117
eBook ISBN: 978-0-307-42977-3
Author photograph © Bill Zules
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