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 ...

In the prologue of “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller,” the subject’s longtime personal assistant Joe Canzeri compares him to a 16-slice pizza pie, with no one but his second wife, Happy, ...

Seen through the prism of subsequent national experience, Nelson Rockefeller resembles a swollen post-war automobile - a land yacht with tail fins, a period piece, bemusing and embarrassing. He ...

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 ...

A few days after the 1952 national election, Nelson Rockefeller invited Herbert Brownell, one of President-elect Dwight Eisenhower’s political strategists, to lunch in his private dining room at ...

Nelson Rockefeller pursued a dream over the course of his lifetime; he wanted to be the president of the United States. It was not meant to be, but he gave it his best shot. In his latest book, the ...

4 million of a fortune so vast it redefined the very meaning of wealth. But, argues biographer Ron Chernow in this richly textured and engagingly lively portrait, Rockefeller’s real legacy was not the ...