Tragically, the Rockefellers didn’t make it into The Observer‘s
The Brown Harris Stevens listing–which is now offline–clocks the apartment at 11.5 rooms, and brags that the place was renovated by high-brow classicist
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. , by Ron Chernow. Random House, 774 pages, $30.
How could this pious man, who invented modern institutional philanthropy and lived according to the strictest rules of church attendance, abstinence, hard work and charitable giving, at the same time have conducted his business affairs with utter ruthlessness? Read More
