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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He was still there every noon at the long table, one seat from the head.
But something in him was beginning to wander.
In the winter of 1883, he and Rockefeller had toured Florida together, looking over Jacksonville and a drowsy old Spanish town called St.
Augustine, listening to local men talk up the state's prospects.
Rockefeller saw a warm place to rest, but Flagler saw something else.
Within a few years, he would start pouring his standard oil fortune into a second empire down there, railroads and grand hotels along the coast, the one that would put his name all over the map of Florida.
The gilded streak his partners had always watched with quiet suspicion finally had somewhere to go.
The
The Parliament of Two would keep meeting for years, but its great work was done.
By 1884, the company had outgrown Cleveland, its birthplace.
But Rockefeller kept coming back, every summer to Forest Hill, his estate in East Cleveland.
The wide grounds, the trees he'd planted himself, the city where his father had dropped him off at a boarding house near the Erie Street Baptist Church, opened a small bank account, and left.
But he was now a visitor in the city he'd first called home.
The city whose refineries he had absorbed one by one until there was nothing left to absorb.
He was 45 years old, and he held more than a third of the largest industrial trust in the world.
His kerosene now lit homes on four continents.
His competitors had all been absorbed or broken.
His name was on the letterhead at 26 Broadway, even if it wasn't on the building.
But there was a writer who would one day aim to take it all apart.
And her name was Ida Tarbell.
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