Word: chernow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...growing number of college alumni associations have databases that allow them to match up graduates who are looking for career guidance and job contacts from other alumni. About 8,000 graduates of UCLA, out of a total of 276,000, use the university's alumni database annually, says Cindy Chernow, director of the institution's five-year-old alumni career-services department...
...Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Random House; 774 pages; $30), Ron Chernow, author of two earlier epic works of business history (The House of Morgan and The Warburgs), has produced one of the great American biographies. Rockefeller may linger in the national memory as a fading capitalist icon, a moral double exposure from long ago, but his story (and that of Standard Oil and the great trust-busting struggles at the turn of the century) becomes an interesting rear-view mirror at the turn of another century, at a moment when the Federal Government has moved against...
...whom the aging Rockefeller posed thought that "if he'd lived in the Middle Ages, he'd have been Pope at Rome." It's a shrewd thought: the Standard Oil monopoly represented a centralized, hierarchical organization that was as intolerant of competitors as the Vatican was of heretics. Chernow proposes a shrewder thought: "At times, when he railed against cutthroat competition and the vagaries of the business cycle, Rockefeller sounded more like Karl Marx than our classical image of the capitalist." America is still trying to figure out where it stands concerning monopoly and competition...
...Chernow neither sanctifies nor demonizes his sometimes strange protagonist, but writes with a rich impartiality. He turns the machinations of Standard Oil and the other trusts into fascinating social history. His assessment of Ida Tarbell and other muckrakers is thorough and not entirely approving. He interweaves the larger American story with an unforgettable account of Rockefeller's family and personal life...
...also does not hurt that the diminutive ( 5 ft. 2 in.) Lipsig can handle jurors' emotions with the finesse of a symphony conductor. The faces in the jury box registered grief and shock during Lipsig's opening statement in Chernow's suit as the maestro described the doctor's tragic demise: picked up by a front fender, smashed into a "shatterproof" windshield, to "land with a thud on the roadway" with "52 bone fractures." After just one day of trial, the city threw in the towel and settled for an undisclosed amount. "Trying a case against him was like playing...