Breaking Rockefeller

Ambitious oil rivals Marcus Samuel, Jr. , and Henri Deterding join forces to topple the Standard Oil empire. It's 1889 in England. John D. Rockefeller is at the peak of his power. Having annihilated all competition and possessing near-total domination of the market, even the U. S. government is wary of challenging the great anaconda of Standard Oil. The Standard Oil never loses--until Samuel and Deterding team up to form Royal Dutch Shell. In this riveting account of ambition, oil, and greed, Breaking Rockefeller traces Samuels rise from outsider to the heights of the British aristocracy, Deterding's conquest of America, and the collapse of Rockefeller's monopoly.