Ron Chernow’s bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center and has received seven honorary doctoral degrees. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
“A biography that has many of the best attributes of a novel. . . .
Wonderfully fluent and compelling.” —The New York Times
“A triumph of the art of biography. Unflaggingly interesting, it
brings John D. Rockefeller Sr. to life through sustained narrative
portraiture of the large-scale, nineteenth-century kind.” —The New
York Times Book Review
“Important and impressive. . . . Reveals the man behind both the
mask and the myth.” —The Wall Street Journal
“One of the great American biographies. . . . [Chernow] writes with
rich impartiality. He turns the machinations of Standard Oil . . .
into fascinating social history.” —Time
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