Sublime

Fleming spent every winter in Jamaica from 1946 until his death, in 1964. It was where he wrote all the Bond books. Jamaica was also where Fleming conducted an affair with a rich widow named Blanche Blackwell, who was in turn having an affair with Fleming’s neighbor, Errol Flynn. Scampering underfoot at Goldeneye was Blackwell’s young son, Chris, w

He had invested somewhere between $27 million and $30 million to lay its 156 miles of track, more than half again what it had cost to run the railroad 350 miles down the mainland coast of Florida, all the way from Jacksonville to Miami. And even mainland operations, which enjoyed relatively…

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For the next fifteen years, Flagler and Rockefeller worked side by side, walking to their offices together in the mornings, passing drafts of letters and detailed business documents between their desks during the day, walking home together at night, always planning and calculating. The result of their efforts was Standard Oil, the largest, most pow