Nelson Rockefeller believed in fate. After all, he was born on the same day as his larger-than-life grandfather, John D. Rockefeller, Sr., a coincidence he always took to be an omen of great things to ...

In the prologue of “On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller,” the subject’s longtime personal assistant Joe Canzeri compares him to a 16-slice pizza pie, with no one but his second wife, Happy, ...

Nelson Rockefeller pursued a dream over the course of his lifetime; he wanted to be the president of the United States. It was not meant to be, but he gave it his best shot. In his latest book, the ...

A few days after the 1952 national election, Nelson Rockefeller invited Herbert Brownell, one of President-elect Dwight Eisenhower’s political strategists, to lunch in his private dining room at ...

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