David Freeman Hawke's biography of John D. Rockefeller — one of the key accounts of the Standard Oil founder alongside Ron Chernow's Titan.
Rockefeller biography as business history: Hawke's account emphasizes Rockefeller's early business formation (his meticulous accounting practices from boyhood, his Baptist faith and tithing from first wages, his systematic approach to industry organization) as formative for Standard Oil's methods. Part of the pre-Chernow biographical tradition on Rockefeller.
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