Robin W. Winks is Randolph W. Townsend Jr., Professor of History and chair of the history department at Yale University. He is author of seventeen books, including the Pulitzer prize-nominated Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War and Frederick S. Billings: A Life.
Despite his status as a scion of one of the wealthiest and most famous families in the United States and an enormously successful businessman in his own right, Laurance S. Rockefeller is unknown to all but a small circle of Americans. Yet while he has been neither Vice President nor Governor nor chairman of the world's largest bank, his contribution to society has been at least as great as that of his more famous brothers.
In Laurance S. Rockefeller: Catalyst for Conservation, noted historian Robin W.