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With Rubinstein, Horowitz and Richter still around, this is not exactly a poor age for the piano. But no need to fear the historians' old canard about each epoch of artistic plenty being followed by drought. The best of today's pianists are already being pressed by some younger challengers, among them Vladimir Ashkenazy, 38, the Russian-born star who now lives in Iceland, and Italy's Maurizio Pollini, 34. They, in turn, have to look over their shoulders at even younger contenders...
...Rockefellers, Collier & Horowitz...
This is not to imply that Collier and Horowitz gloss over the impact of the Rockefellers in favor of describing exquisite intertribal tensions. Particularly in detailing the history of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five powerful sons, they carefully document the extent and form of the family's influence. In this modern, financially stable stage, their lives are inextricably bound up with the course of the nation, through a welter of foundations, governmental bureaus, financial institutions and the family specialty these days, report-writing panels of experts...
...they were able to have a major hand in the Vietnam War, the growth of the CIA, the shaping of the Cold War, presidential and cabinet selections, even world population patterns. All these things are tangential to the central, family-related drama of the book, and indeed Collier and Horowitz leave the way open for someone else to do a book on what the Rockefellers did to everyone else, rather than just themselves. Still, the very incidental way in which world events are portrayed--the virtual colonization of Venezuela, say, as a good maturing experience for Nelson--is a testament...
...extremely complex family, and not only to recount the fortunes of that family. Beyond that, seeing the family's story as the story of big capitalism in America, it seeks to tell that story too. A task that ambitious is practically impossible to carry out, and Collier and Horowitz are weakest at drawing all the necessary connections such a complicated scheme entails...