Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. By Ron Chernow

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. By Ron ChernowJohn D. Rockefeller, Sr. history's first billionaire and the patriarch of America's most famous dynasty is an icon whose true nature has eluded three generations of historians. Now Ron Chernow, the National Book Award winning biographer of the Morgan and Warburg banking families, gives us a history of the mogul "etched with uncommon objectivity and literary grace . . . as detailed, balanced, and psychologically insightful a portrait of the tycoon as

who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest

Alex Garland's international bestseller

half myth and wholly magical

and this act allowed him to solve his own financial problems

and win the game of life

This volume also includes two other masterly novellas

impressions past and present

The result is the rare chance to watch a great writer hone his craft in real time

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"

anyone can achieve his or her dreams

revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts

The mother is on her way to intensive care