Strouse, Jean,   1945- <br/><br/>
Morgan :  American financier / 
Jean Strouse. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Random House,  1999. 
 - xv, 796 pages, [32] pages of plates :   illustrations, portraits ;   25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-699) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. In this account, drawn from more than a decade's work in newly available archives, biographer Jean Strouse animates Morgan's life and times to reveal the entirely human character behind the often terrifying visage 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>186046355X (alk. paper) 9781860463556 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Morgan, J. Pierpont  1837-1913. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bankers--Biography.--United States<br/>Banqueros --Estados Unidos--Biografías <br/>Capitalists and financiers--Biography.--United States<br/>Capitalistas --Estados Unidos --Biografías <br/>Art--Collectors and collecting--Biography.--United States<br/>Coleccionistas y colecciones --Estados Unidos--Biografías 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B HG 2463  / M848S 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.1/092