Quotes from Ron Chernow

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For Archbold, it was the Russians' failure to consolidate their domestic industry—that is, to suppress competition and establish a trust—that consigned them to secondary status.

Junior decided to look elsewhere and finally selected Brown because three close friends had chosen to attend it.

Paradoxically, it was the philanthropic effort that most frustrated him and most frequently violated his charitable principles.

Almost two thousand New Yorkers died, and a fresh potter's field was consecrated in what is now Greenwich Village.

Wanting to dedicate himself to philanthropy

Andrew Carnegie was truly saddened by the revelation of poor Pierpont's poverty. "And to think he was not a rich man

In reality, he was fully prepared to deal with a strong producers' cartel so long as they capped production.

If there had been as prompt and energetic action on the part of the Russian oil industry as was taken by the Standard Oil Company, the Russians would have dominated many of the world's markets

Mary Surratt, who ran a boardinghouse where Booth colluded with other conspirators, went down in historical annals as the first woman ever executed by the federal government.

Yet he quietly worked to undermine the dissolution, suggesting that officials of the Standard Oil companies meet at 26 Broadway at ten-thirty each morning to maintain amicable relations and swap information.

After reading through George Washington's papers, Marshall pronounced Hamilton "the greatest man (or one of the greatest men) that had ever appeared in the United States."31 Marshall considered Hamilton and Washington the two indispensable founders, and it therefore came as no surprise that Jefferson looked askance at the chief justice as "the Federalist serpent in the democratic Eden of our administration."32

As the sole clergyman, Knox resided in a settlement known as the Bottom, sunk in the elevated crater of an extinct volcano; it could be reached only by climbing up a stony path. Knox

42 The government was obviously withdrawing its support.

So long as he could maintain ample spreads between crude and refined prices, Rockefeller blessed the producers' efforts to impose higher prices and control output.

Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.

beneath the competitive veneer, the Rothschilds were eager to come to terms with Standard Oil:

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

For legal reasons, everyone was cautioned not to exchange thoughts on paper.)

With granite will, he began to mold Pierpont, instructing him to associate with those of his grammar-school classmates "as are of the right stamp & whose influence over you will be good.

At the start of 1799, both of the banks in New York City happened to be the brainchildren of Alexander Hamilton: the Bank of New York and the local branch of the Bank of the United States.

I was often there with George, his playmate, schoolmate, and young man's companion," said Lawrence Washington of Chotank, a distant relative. "Of the mother I was more afraid than of my own parents; she awed me in the midst of her kindness, for she was, indeed, truly kind.

No less ideologically hostile to government than his father, Jack saw the need to mute his public anger.

It's twaddle, poisonous twaddle, put out for a purpose. As a matter of fact, we were all in a sinking ship, if existing cut-throat competition continued, and we were trying to build a lifeboat to carry us all to the shore. You don't have to threaten men to get them to leave a sinking ship in a lifeboat.