All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

book is done you must do a character sketch of Mr. Rockefeller.” I was

not keen for it. It would have to be done like the books, from documents; that is, I had no inclination to use the extraordinary gossip which came to me from many sources. If I were to do it I wanted only that of which I felt I had sure proof, only those things which seemed to me to help explain the public life o...