The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller

By Cary Reich

A triumph of the biographer's art,The Life of Nelson A. Rockefelleris the first full-length biography of one of the most powerful, magnetic, fascinating figures on the twentieth-century stage. Of all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 038524696X
• ISBN13: 9780385246965
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 875 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

An engrossing and suprisingly quick read

This book was a finalist for the National Book Award and it is easy to see why. Although it is an enormous book--over 700 pages and still only the first volume of this biography--it is an engrossing and amazingly quick read. Rockefeller moved in so many great circles that the book feels more like one about 20th century America than just one man. The author's fascination with Rockefeller is infectious. The fact that Cary Reich died a sudden and untimely death last year, before he could complete volume two, means that readers will be deprived, even if the writer who completes volume two does an equally superb job.