Ron Chernow
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Ron Chernow

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Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan, and his second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.
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    • A Life
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 41 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 48 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-17
    • Language: English
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    • The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
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    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
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    • The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Michael Kramer
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
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    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 23 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
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    • The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
    • Length: 35 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
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