Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She described his alopecia as the outward sign of moral rot.
The puffy flesh and his thin lips of a living mummy.
He could shrug off attacks on his business methods, but this personal attack hit a nerve.
This same study dragged his father into the open.
It revealed that the richest man on earth had a parent still alive out west, a traveling medicine man living under an assumed name.
This was a secret Rockefeller had spent his whole life burying.
Sixteen years earlier, in 1889, his mother Eliza had died at age 67, never knowing that the husband, who had drifted away from the family for decades, was living as a bigamist under a false name.
The day before her funeral, Rockefeller went to the minister who would deliver the eulogy and arrange for one detail to be added, that his mother had died a widow, faithful to the memory of her dead husband.
The death certificate recorded the same fiction.
At his mother's funeral, at least for the official record, Rockefeller had killed the old man off himself.
But now Tarbell was digging the old man back up.
As a result, for years, reporters hunted Big Bill Rockefeller.
They were too late.
He died in 1906 at 69 years old, buried under the name Livingston in an unmarked grave.
The family absorbed the rest.
While the Tarbell series ran, his wife Setti suffered a stroke that left her half paralyzed for two years.
Bessie, their eldest daughter, sank into a dementia she never came out of, and another daughter, Edith, fled to Europe depressed.
Junior, gripped by migraines and insomnia, broke down entirely in late 1904 and spent most of a year recovering in France.
And all of this stayed hidden from the public.
It was in these years that the father began confiding in the son.
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