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The decision was partly a question of style.

Frank was the last person she had expected to volunteer as a source.

I doubt if Mr. Rockefeller's attention could be attracted.

Oddly, he expressed affection for William Rockefeller, whom he portrayed as solid, laconic, and far more trustworthy than Rogers.

Tough challenges from Rockefeller might have blunted Tarbell's confidence and made readers question her sources.

Flagler had a lean, handsome face and was highly susceptible to female charm.

Pierpont not only reorganized roads but locked up their future financing.

As an ardent temperance advocate, he was extremely uncomfortable around drinkers—perhaps one reason why he seldom visited the oil fields.

Perhaps most problematic was the controversial bargain that Alexander Hamilton had struck with the Constitution, dedicating his life to what he deemed a flawed document.

an Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become "a contracted receptacle of bigotry

Chase was a tall, ungainly man with a resemblance to Dr. Samuel Johnson and a face so broad and ruddy that he was dubbed "Bacon Face.

Why distrust the evidence of the Jews? Discredit them and you destroy the Christian religion.

Frank must have feared that any published comments would dry up the loans from his brothers.

may have clung to the Morgan position longer than he wanted to because of its social utility.

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

While sympathetic to Roosevelt's plea, Morgan lacked the total power over the railroad men

A hostile press often spoke of the University as if it were Standard Oil propaganda

Few figures in American History have aroused such visceral love or loathing as Alexander Hamilton.

His victory over the Cleveland refiners would be the first but also the most controversial campaign of his career.

coaxed America into war for profit.

Harper made an appeal for more money, despite the previous year's shortfall.

In an early version of the letter, never sent, Gates was even more outspoken.

the incident confirmed his innate pessimism.

It is hard to avoid the impression that he was deliberately tiptoeing around unpleasant subjects out of respect for her delicate medical state.