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Historian Allan Nevins acknowledges the earnestness and honesty of Muckrakeress Tarbell's book. But he has long thought that the time was ripe for a reappraisal of John D. Rockefeller Sr. in line with later, less emotional understanding of the nature and function of trusts. Last week he made this appraisal in an exhaustive, intelligent, scrupulously just, lucidly written biography of John D. About half of Volume I describes his poor but honest boyhood in Tioga County, N. Y., his thrifty, God-fearing young manhood in Cleveland, Ohio. About half of Volume II describes his closing years of good...
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