A New Study of Rockefeller - Allan Nevins, John D. Rockefeller: the Heroic Age of American Enterprise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 2 vols. Pp. 683, 747. $7.50.

Here is a much needed authoritative biography of one of America's greatest industrial capitalists—at least the peer of Vanderbilt, Hill, Carnegie, and Ford. Its two ample volumes provide us with facts old and new, corrections of previous judgments, and the author's own inimitable way of putting things.