Nelson Rockefeller believed in fate. After all, he was born on the same day as his larger-than-life grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., a coincidence he always took to be an omen of great things to ...

"On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller" by Richard Norton Smith (Random House, 843 pages, $38) (Audiobook, 32 CDs, 41 hours, $65) Nelson Rockefeller pursued a dream over the course of his ...

For 14 years, Richard Norton Smith wrestled with the subject of his monumental new biography, an 880-page tome, "On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller." He came face-to-face with what he came ...

John Davison Rockefeller Sr. (July 8, 1839 – May 23, 1937) was an American business magnate and philanthropist. He was a co-founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and ...