Memoirs.

ROCKEFELLER, David.

Item Number: 139803

New York: Random House, 2002.

First edition, early printing of this “compelling story of money, philanthropy, culture, and politics” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). Octavo, original boards. Signed by David Rockefeller on his official bookplate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Robin Schiff. Jacket photograph by Karsh.

Born into one of the wealthiest families in America—he was the youngest son of Standard Oil scion John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and the celebrated patron of modern art Abby Aldrich Rockefeller—David Rockefeller has carried his birthright into a distinguished life of his own. His dealings with world leaders from Zhou Enlai and Mikhail Gorbachev to Anwar Sadat and Ariel Sharon, his service to every American president since Eisenhower, his remarkable world travels and personal dedication to his home city of New York—here, the first time a Rockefeller has told his own story, is an account of a truly rich life. “David Rockefeller is an emblematic figure of a world that no longer really exists...and there’s something refreshingly nineteenth-century about this entertaining memoir as well. Rockefeller’s style is restrained and self-deprecating" (The New Yorker).