The Rockefellers

25 hrs. 23 min.

Language Russian

Author Ekaterina Glagoleva

Narrator Alexander Lutoshkin

Description

The nearly two-century history of the Rockefeller family—who gave the world industrialists, bankers, politicians, patrons of the arts, and philanthropists, the first billionaire, and one of America’s vice presidents—runs closely intertwined with the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present day. They were called bloodsuckers, and their largest oil company in the world was likened to a tentacle that strangled America; they were accused of being puppeteers who controlled the government, and yet admired for their ability to build everything on an industrial basis, even charity. The Rockefellers collected works of art, built mansions—and invested money in education and healthcare. Thanks to them exist the Rockefeller University, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Lincoln Center. With their money, the most diverse projects were carried out in China, Greece, Mexico, France, and Israel; leaders of the USSR and Russia worked with them—from Khrushchev to Yeltsin. So what is true and what is conjecture? The answer is given by Ekaterina Glagoleva’s book about a world-famous clan that preserved its family values, upbringing principles, and credo across five generations—doing what no one else had done yet.