Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

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