Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (1908-1979), an heir to the enormous Standard Oil fortune amassed by his grandfather, forsook business for a career in state and national politics, which included four terms as governor of New York, several attempts at the...

By Cary Reich; Doubleday, 875 pages, $35 Nelson Rockefeller was the symbol of a type of liberal Republican that in recent years was assumed to be extinct. Colin Powell became perhaps this decade's only self-professed "Rockefeller Republican's when he briefly preened before...

Missionary Capitalist: Nelson Rockefeller in Venezuela. By Darlene Rivas. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 290 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, illustrations, maps, photographs. Cloth, $49-95. ISBN 0-807-82684-7. In the past few years, the Rockefeller archives have been the source of a...

There is an unspoken but long-understood historical tradition among both the Republican and Democratic parties about whom they decide to send as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. With the nomination of John Bolton to be the next American envoy to the U.N., it...

The late humorist Fred Allen wasn't thinking of Albany when he entitled his memoirs Treadmill to Oblivion. But the phase neatly describes the experience of recent New York Governors who saw the state's executive mansion on Eagle Street as a roadside motel and another, more...

Discusses the history and legacy of the American Rockefeller family. Explores their business, politics and philanthropy. Focuses on Nelson A. Rockefeller.