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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER-Allan Nevins -Scribner (2 vols.; $7.50).
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...
Historian Nevins believes that trusts are an inevitable sign of industry's maturity: their historical justification is their efficiency. He makes no attempt to sidestep or deny Standard's unfair, savage throat-cutting in its efforts to trustify. But he sees such practices as part of an unfair...
trust. It bore the first onslaughts of criticism, lawsuits, public investigation by people to whom the unfamiliar monster was "a conspiracy, a dark plot born in greed."* Greedy men exist, observes Nevins, but they seldom pile up colossal fortunes. Rockefeller himself said that his great aim was "achievement," and, says...
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN - Philip Van Doren Stern -Random House ($3.75). Described by Historian Allan Nevins as "much the amplest and best selected body of Lincoln's writings ever brought into convenient form," this book makes a valuable companion to Carl Sandburg's great six...