Quotes About Ron Chernow

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.

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

It never occurred to the Rockefellers to trade up to a more socially prestigious denomination. "Most Americans when they accumulate money climb the golden spires of the nearest Episcopal Church," H. L. Mencken later observed.

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.

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

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.

Hamilton's lifelong habit of talking sotto voce while pacing lent him an air of either inspiration or madness.)

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.

Such care in small things might seem penurious to some people, yet to him it was the working out of a life principle.

This was a corner, a bloody trap for speculators.

His constant aim was to be conciliatory whenever possible and extend his range of influence.

It was the northern economic system that embodied the mix of democracy and capitalism that was to constitute the essence of America in the long run.

agonized over the judicious application of his money and found it harder to exercise scrutiny over charities than over business.

I attribute it more than anything to the endorsement of my father's friends.