Title: Study in power: John D. Rockefeller :
Authors: Nevins, Allan,; Chandler, Alfred D.
Date: 1953
Publisher: Scribner,
Physical description: 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: C
Contents: v.1: A foothold in life -- Venture in oil -- Boom and depression -- Economies, rebates, and expansion -- The birth of Standard Oil -- The wrong road to Union -- The first battle lost -- The conquest of Cleveland -- Rockefeller finds new allies -- Leviathan -- The crucial year, 1874-75 -- Sweeping the board -- War with the Pennsylvania -- A new kind of monopoly -- Leaders and lieutenants -- New gluts, new conflicts -- The regions challenge Rockefeller -- Citizen of Cleveland -- The Pipe Line revolution -- Pipe Line Colossus -- The first great trust -- v.2: The great machine -- Reaching the consumer -- "Competitors we must have" -- Citizen of New York -- Widening horizons in oil -- The rising storm -- The founding of a University -- Rise of the University -- New aides: Gates and the son -- The trust slain and reborn -- Rockefeller, Morgan, and the steel trust -- Rockefeller drops the helm -- Adventures in spending -- Assailants and defenders -- The dissolution of the trust -- "The well-being of mankind" -- Exeunt omnes -- Trial balance.
Notes: Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (v. 1, p. 403-441; v. 2, p. 437-466.) "Bibliography of official documents": v. 2, p. 483-484.
Subject headings (LCSH): Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.