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From acclaimed historian Richard Norton Smith comes the first complete biography of an American icon: Nelson Rockefeller—one of the most complex and compelling figures of the twentieth century. In On His Own Terms, fourteen years in the making, Smith draws on thousands of newly available documents and some two hundred interviews, including his subject’s own unpublished reminiscences. Grandson of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, Nelson coveted the White House from childhood. “When you think of what I had,” he once remarked, “what else was there to aspire to?” Before he was thirty he had helped his father develop Rockefeller Center and his…