Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil Empire
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0143130005 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Doran is vice president for research at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, D.C., where he leads the center’s energy horizons and defense programs. He is the author of the popular “History of Oil” podcast on iTunes. He holds a master's degree from Georgetown University's Edmund A. Pete
Rockefeller—reads like a thriller without sacrificing good solid scholarship. With some relevant observations for our own time, this is a gem of a book.”—Robert Kagan, New York Times bestselling author of Of Paradise and Power and The World America Made“Peter Doran tells a riveting and exciting account of the formation of Royal Dutch Shell and how it managed to stand up to Standard Oil at the turn of the 19th century. In this story of the origins of the modern oil industry, there are plenty of lessons for the present too.”—Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag: A History and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europ
Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. The Standard never loses—that is until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell. Taking readers through the rough and tumble of East London’s streets, the twilight turmoil of czarist Russia, to the halls of the British Parliament, and right down Broadway in New York City, Peter Doran offers a richly detailed, fresh perspective on how Samuel and Deterding beat the world’s richest man at his own game.“Gripping timely a vivid reminder of the dangers of monopolies, and of the merits of no-holds barred competition and technological upheaval.” —The Economist . The beginning of the twentieth century is a time when vast fortunes were made and lost. In 1889, John D. and Henri Deterding joined forces to topple the Standard Oil empire Marcus Samuel, Jr., is an unorthodox Jewish merchant trader. A riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuel’s rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding’s conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller’s monopoly. Henri Deterding is a take-no-prisoners oilman. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the U.S. The incredible tale of how ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr. government is wary of challenging the great “anaconda” of Standard Oil
An Unlikely Oil Baron Peter Doran tells the story of Marcus Samuel Jr. a Jewish 19th century trader who rises from the hard scrabble neighborhood of Houndsditch, London to the heights of the global oil business and a high peerage in the Court of Saint James. Doran’s book is in the tradition of Daniel Yergin’s “The Prize” and Anthony Sampson’s “The Seven Sisters” and is filled with the high drama of the early years of the oil industry. The oil business of 1900 was far different than today. Rockefeller’s Stand. Steven Peterson said Development of Royal Dutch Shell and the challenge of Standard Oil. A fascinating book. John D. Rockefeller had established the Standard Oil Company, which used its near monopoly power to dominate the oil market in the United States. This book is a study in how two entrepreneurs--competitiros at times and collaborators at other times--entered the American market and competed with Standard Oil. The success of the new group--Royal Dutch Shell--was a bit less than met the eye, but it was surely an important event in American oil business and policy and politics.The progenitors of Royal Dutch Shell .Marc. Hector E. said A page turner. While John D. Rockefeller's story is a well traveled road, Royal Dutch/Shell's history was totally unknown to me. And this book does the job thoroughly, I enjoyed the description of London's neighborhoods in the mid 1800s, how the name Shell came about, the far away oil fields in Baku, Sri Lanka and Borneo. The details about the first oil tanker I found it to be fascinating.I could not put it down, I strongly recommend this book, specially to those who enjoy financial history but also to any one who enjoys a good biography. I loved i