Another gem from PBS exploring three generations of Rockefellers, featuring interviews with American historian Ron Chernow and others.

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They feared the temptations of wealth, yet their estate was once described as the kind of place God would have built–if only he had the money. They amassed a fortune that outraged a democratic nation, then gave much of it away. They were the closest thing this country had to a royal family, but they shunned the public eye, retreating behind the walls of their palatial home at Pocantico Hills, New York.

Source: American Experience