{"id":32541,"date":"2019-12-28T10:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=32541"},"modified":"2019-12-28T10:26:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:26:33","slug":"chernows-rockefeller-bio-so-cheap-jd-rockefeller-would-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/28\/chernows-rockefeller-bio-so-cheap-jd-rockefeller-would-buy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Chernow’s Rockefeller Bio So Cheap JD Rockefeller would Buy It"},"content":{"rendered":"

JD Rockefeller believed himself to be something of a gift from god, a gift to capitalism. I’m not big on the god thing, but Ron Chernow is a gift of some kind to the art of biography. He writes big thick books that are actually about 25% less thick than they look because the last quarter is footnotes. He is famous for writing the biography that became the famous musical known as Hamilton. You know of whom I speak.<\/p>\n

I recently read Rachel Maddow’s excellent and compelling, must read Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth<\/a>\"\". You must read it. Rockefeller’s story is an important part of the contextual lead-up that Dr. Maddow does so well, and for this she leans, appropriately, on Chernow’s Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr<\/a>\"\". So, when I saw that Titan<\/a>\"\" was available on the Kindle, cheap, I thought you should know too, and now you do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JD Rockefeller believed himself to be something of a gift from god, a gift to capitalism. I’m not big on the god thing, but Ron Chernow is a gift of some kind to the art of biography. He writes big thick books that are actually about 25% less thick than they look because the last … Continue reading Chernow’s Rockefeller Bio So Cheap JD Rockefeller would Buy It<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5024,5044],"tags":[6063,6062,2257],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/StandardOilpolitical-cartoon-2.jpg?fit=300%2C179&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8sR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32544,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32541\/revisions\/32544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}