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Titan by Ron Chernow

- Abstract

In March 1905, Reverend Washington Gladden, a Congregational minister in Columbus, Ohio, denounced from the pulpit a $100,000 gift his denomination had recently received from John D. Rockefeller, Sr. The donation, Gladden declared, was “tainted money,” th



About the Author

Leslie Lenkowsky is professor of public affairs and philanthropic studies at Indiana University.