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Article: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller: The Woman in the Family.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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The Rockefeller family is known in contemporary America for its philanthropy and for its place in political and business history. In this biography, Bernice Kert suggests that Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and mother of six public-spirited children, played a pivotal role not only in shaping the careers of her husband and children but also in influencing the Rockefeller family's use of their enormous wealth as a progressive force in the arts, politics, and social reform.
The book is organized into five parts. In the first, Kert reviews Abby Aldrich's early life - as the daughter of Nelson Aldrich, a Republican senator from ...