Quotes from Ron Chernow

Those are the only things which really seem to do him any good.

What set Tarbell apart from Rockefeller was her intellectual daring and fearless curiosity.

Rather than trying to accomplish everything through its own budget, it would awaken public opinion and stimulate government action.

Rockefeller was still held responsible for the sins of Standard Oil

Yet these were random efforts, not a coordinated counterattack.

On the night of April 18, 1775, eight hundred British troops marched out of Boston to capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seize a stockpile of patriot munitions in Concord.

Jack's way of shielding his mother from his father's growing number of affairs

John's later tendency to minimize the disgrace probably had several causes, ranging from filial piety to shrewd public relations; he knew people bent upon proving his own immorality wanted to buttress their case by first tarnishing his father.

Rockefeller almost never spoke so viciously—but he did bear a special grudge against Scofield.

As a vast discrepancy in wealth arose between him and his two brothers, Frank tried to redress the imbalance by gambling, only to stumble into fresh fiascoes and exacerbate his reliance on them.

Rockefeller spent a ridiculous amount of time protesting bills both large and small and scrutinized the smallest bills from grocers and butchers.

Articles began to appear with titles like "The Human Side of John D. Rockefeller," as if its existence wasn't taken for granted.

The Second Continental Congress lacked many of the prerequisites of an authentic government—an army, a currency, taxing power—yet it evolved in pell-mell fashion into the first government of the United States.

He peppered his talk with references to his forgiving nature.

We consider situation critical, politicians appear to have absolute control.

Driven by such changes in the economy

Reasonably generous in wages, salaries, and pensions, he paid somewhat above the industry average.

In Heaven's name, don't make this letter public, since, were you to do so, I fear my brethren of the Methodist Church might fear I had so far fallen from grace as to leave no hope of recovery.

As far as Chess, Carley Co.'s territory is concerned, every effort is being made to dislodge Rice.

Yet she decided never to marry and to remain self-sufficient.

Hamilton seldom published under his own name and drew on a bewildering array of pseudonyms. Such pen names were sometimes transparent masks through which the public readily identified prominent politicians. The fashion of allowing anonymous attacks permitted extraordinary bile to seep into political discourse, and savage remarks that might not otherwise have surfaced appeared regularly in the press.

Pierpont began to emerge from his father's shadow and take charge of major deals.

tried to make it appear that we are attacking a race

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.