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Morgan : American Financier

A century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U.S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, the confidant (and rival) of Theodore Roosevelt, England's Edward VII, and Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm, and the companion of several fascinating women, Morgan shaped his world and ours in countless ways. Yet since his death he has remained a mysterious figure, celebrated as a hero of industrial progress and vilified as a rapacious robber baron.Here for the first time is the biography Morgan has long deserved--a magisterial, full-scale portrait of the man without whose dominating will American finance and culture would be very different from what they are today. In this beautifully crafted account, drawn from more than a decade's work in newly available archives, the award-winning biographer Jean Strouse animates Morgan's life and times to reveal the entirely human character behind the often terrifying visage.        Morgan brings eye-opening perspectives to the role the banker played in the emerging U.S. economy as he raised capital in Europe, reorganized bankrupt railroads, stabilized markets in times of crisis, and set up many of the corporate and financial structures we take for granted. And surprising new stories introduce us in vivid detail to Morgan's childhood in Hartford and Boston, his schooling in Switzerland and Germany, the start of his career in New York--as well as to his relations with his esteemed and exacting father, with his adored first and difficult second wives, with his children, partners, business associates, female consorts, and friends. Morgan had a second major career as a collector of art, stocking America with visual and literary treasures of the past. Called by one contemporary expert "the greatest collector of our time," he spent much of his energy and more than half of his fortune on art.                 Strouse's extraordinary biography gives dramatic new dimension not only to Morgan but to the culture, political struggles, and social conflicts of America's momentous Gilded Age.

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• Hardcover : 199 pages


• Title : Morgan : American Financier


• Language : English


• ISBN-10 : 375501665

 

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Morgan: American Financier: Strouse, Jean: 9780812987041
J. P. Morgan was probably the most famous banker in American history. Having lived through the period of history in which the United States had no kind of central bank, Morgan's enormous influence at times made him America's de facto central banker.
Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
In my opinion, based on the information in this book 'Morgan: American Financier', J. Pierpont Morgan (1837 1913) is one of those people of history who can be judged more positively in hindsight than many other so called wealthy 'robber baron' men of America.
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A magnificent biography.” —The New York Review of Books “With uncommon intelligence, maturity, and psychological insight, Morgan: American Financier is that rare masterpiece biography that enables us to penetrate the soul of a complex human being.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer
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J. P. Morgan was probably the most famous banker in American history. Having lived through the period of history in which the United States had no kind of central bank, Morgan's enormous influence at times made him America's de facto central banker.
Morgan: American Financier book by Jean Strouse
In her book, "Morgan: American Financier" Jean Strouse has made a bold attempt to capture the essence of the man whose ideas shaped America's economy from the Civil War up through, at least, the New Deal.
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Pierpont Morgan, the central banker of the United States before the Great War, was one of the most contradictory public figures of the Gilded Age. In this engrossing story an extraordinary accomplishment, filled with the vitality of the biographer and the fascination of her subject Morgan has finally met his match."
Morgan : American Financier by Jean Strouse (2014, Trade
Pierpont Morgan, the central banker of the United States before the Great War, was one of the most contradictory public figures of the Gilded Age. In this engrossing story an extraordinary accomplishment, filled with the vitality of the biographer and the fascination of her subject Morgan has finally met his match."
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Morgan: American Financier | Based on extensive research in newly opened archives, Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse’s portrait of J. P. Morgan, shows a man who helped transform the United States into an industrial nation, and amassed an extraordinary collection of books and art in the process. Morgan emerges as a man who was critical in reorganizing bankrupt railroads, attracting ...
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Jean Strouse is the author of Morgan: American Financier as well as Alice James, which won the Bancroft Prize. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Newsweek, Architectural Digest, and Slate.

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