john d. rockefeller. the breaking of what rockefeller stood for was just a story, as i say, that i really wanted to tell well. any other questions? these are good. well, i guess the final thought and what i would encourage all of you to do as you look at "breaking rockefeller" is to perhaps ask this question, because for me, it was the hardest. i offer an answer, but it was the hardest in writing this book, and that is that john d. rockefeller, i believe, was one of the most complex human beings who has ever lived. wealth amplified all that was great and noble and also ruthless and, in the financial sense, blood thirsty about rockefeller. it collided headlong with his baptist faith in which he believed that there was a just god, and he was doing the work of god. and that tension, i think, really affected how rockefeller viewed himself, how he viewed his competitors and, ultimately, it inspired his actions throughout his life. one of the cool postscripts of this story is we started this discussion talking a

that was john d rockefeller. it also gives you an idea about the stakes of those that went up against him. in 1889 the story begins, the world is making his transition from cultural oil. the individuals who would help push that transition along with help make the world that we enjoy and live in today had a problem. rockefeller was their problem. and from that problem is of the outbreak of what is essentially the world's first great oil war. and from that where we have a lot of important things. first will that were transformed rockefeller from being that rich man into the wealthiest human being who has ever lived. that were created the global energy market as we know it. because it created a global price for oil. today, the price of a barrel of oil is the same in shanghai essentially as it is in london as it is in moscow. there is a reason for that. the reason is the war to break rockefeller's empire it helps create this global price for oil. and give us a lot of legacies. legacies of science, innovation and lega

john d rockefeller, and this is when standard is being broken up as well into many parts. rockefeller junior channels his energies, as well as funds into philanthropy. this is going to become his most important element. -- important outlet. he will support traditional missionaries. he is a very devout baptist like his father. he will help fund missionaries in asia, including the luce family in which henry luce grew up on a mission field in china. there is a very natural connection. rockefeller junior is also going to look at funding the federal council of churches, will serve on the council of foreign relations. all of which is to say he has this internationalist vision. it is still very much religious in his case, but he is also wanting to expand philanthropy into a more secular scientific realm. health for instance, improving technology, looking to develop undeveloped countries as he sees them, and modernize them. it is how does religious vision -- this is a way in which this religious vision combined with politics and philanthropy will comply their vision of oil going fo

today we face -- we are under a regime even more brutal and vicious than john d rockefeller's new york state. what would you say to today's resisters here and all around the world? for example, there is a strike going on right now at folsom prison and i urge everybody to support that. thank you.u. >> thank you for that.nd 70' yeah, i think that. of the 60s and 70 shows is that ordinary human beings when they stand together can in fact change policies and culture and ideas but it has to have extraordinary faith and imagination to that change can happen. i think young people have no faith anymore that change can happen so it probably starts with having that faith. this is not permanent andes nothing is permanent anyway. everything changes so let's make sure it changes in a more humane and progressive direction. what atticus shows us and tell our own history and get the story straight. if you allow people to tell the media, the press what happened and it isn't correct -- if it is true that you have a generation turn again this generation too. it's about hope. i don't mean that in some sli

john d. rockefeller, new york state.so what would you say to today's resistors here and all around the world, for example, there's a strike going on right now at prison and i urge everybody to support that, but thank you. >> thank you for that. yeah, i think that what that period of the 60's and 70's shows that ordinary human beings when they stand together can change policies, culture and ideas but it has to have extraordinary face and imagination that change can happen. i think sometimes young people have no faith anymore that change can happen so it probably starts with having that faith that, you know, this is not permanent, we don't have to -- nothing the permanent anyway. everything changes so let's make sure it changes in a very more humane and progressive direction, but what attica shows us, though, and tell our own history, get the stories straight because if you allow people to tell the media, the press what happened and it isn't correct, if it isn't true, then you'll have a generation turn against this generat

and it today we are under a regime in a more brutal and vicious than john d rockefeller's new york state, so what would you say to today's resistors here and all around the world? for example, there is a strike going on right now at full some prison and i urge everyone to support that, but thank you. >> thank you for that. i think what that period of the 60s and 70s show is that ordinary human beings when they stand together can change policies and culture and ideas, but it has to have extraordinary faith and imagination that change can happen. i think sometimes some people have no faith anymore that change can happen, so it probably starts with having that faith that this is not permanent. nothing is permanent anyway. everything changes, so let's make sure it changes anymore the main erection, but what attica shows us is that tell our history straight because if you allow people to tell the media, the press what happened and it is incorrect, if it is it true then will have a generation turn gets this generation, so it's about hope and i don't mean that in some flippant way. i mean, abou

he approached several investors, eventually catching the interest of john d rockefeller jr., who agreed to finance the project as long as the entire city was dingor districts.t particular in exerting control over the entire city, rockefeller gave himself complete power, at least initially, to articulate williamsburg's new tourist identity. rockefeller decided to focus on the colonial era at the height of the city's influence and use the physical space as what one newspaper called a shrine, where the great events of early american history and the many men who made it may be visualized in their proper setting. with rockefeller's $79 million investment, modern williamsburg became colonial williamsburg. by the end of the initial era of restoration rockefeller had , demolished or removed 720 buildings and reconstructed or restored hundreds of others to achieve a single colonial visual narrative throughout the town. rockefeller's unprecedented purchase and his power over the physical and historic landscape of williamsburg prompted one shocked resident to declare, my god, they stole the town.

john d. rockefeller, by his acquisition of a lot of small oil companies lowers the price of oil so dramatically for the wealthy, the middle class and for the poor. lowered the price of oil. they still broke it up because they didn't like one guy having that much control. neil: he still found ways around it with holding companies -- >> yes, he did. the point is even when the monopolist creates good for everybody, the government will sometimes still interfere if it is it is politically unwise not to interfere. neil: so if you are a republican president, you don't like to think our institutions respond politically there, but he does own "the washington post," not a friend to this administration -- [laughter] or perceived that way. what do you think? >> i would hope that the justice department would not make a decision on that basis, but they're human like the rest of us. neil: yeah. >> so i don't know where it's going to be go. neil: i was listening to you earlier on my friend, stuart varney's, show, and you were talking about this whole health care back and forth. and outcut back to the very prem