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Breaking Rockefeller

Peter B. Doran

2016337 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2016
first published
  • 2016Viking · 337 pages · ENGISBN 9780525427391
  • 2017Penguin Books · 352 pagesISBN 9780143130000

"The author of the popular History of Oil podcast traces the early-20th-century rivalry between John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil and Royal Dutch Shell, describing the origins of partners Marcus Samuel, Jr. and Henri Deterding and how they used respective talents to break Rockefeller's daunting monopoly"--

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