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The Rockefellers

By: Peter Collier, David Horowitz
Narrated by: Michael Anthony
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Against a richly detailed backdrop of history, the story of this unique American family unfolds. It begins with John D. Rockefeller Sr., who amassed a fortune amid the muck and disorder of the Pennsylvania oil fields and left his son to deal with the public outcry. It follows Rockefeller Jr. as he built the charities and foundations that made the name a public institution. And it tracks the lives of the five Rockefeller brothers. Here then is Laurance, clever and charming as a youth, burned out and cynical by middle age; Winthrop, the shy, awkward, black sheep who finally made a mark for himself in the eyes of everyone but his family; JDR3, introverted and anxious even after years of proving himself; David, a man on the move who took the nation's front-ranking bank and made it number three; and Nelson, ambitious, aggressive, the brother who broke the unwritten family code.

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Read by a robot

I am only part-way through this and am struggling. The narrator’s voice is simply awful, he sounds like a robot and has no charisma in his delivery whatsoever.

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the rockefellers

very interesting book but such a shame that the recording is a little echoey in places and also that the narrator cannot pronouce french words correctly

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It's in-between the lines

Interesting listen. I was hoping for a few secretes but as the very last line clearly states, this book was heavily vetted. Authors very clever in some small passages though as they either immediately or at a latter point completely contradict aforementioned statements. eg: "The Rockefellers had no close ties with the communist Russians" Later "No Americans got the red carpet treatment in Moscow like the Rockefellers"

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A fair history of the Rickefeller family

The book give us insight into the birth and rise of the Rockefeller family in an unbiased style. The book is trying to focus on the facts and not just display the family in one extreme. Althought the view they present us mosty positive, it’s justified by highlighting how much effort and money they spent on trying to rehabilitate the family’s image in the eyes of the masses, who don’t necessarily want or can understand the pressure they had on them simply because of the amount of money and power they controlled.

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