TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strouse,Jean
TI  - Morgan: American financier 
SN  - 186046355X (alk. paper)
AV  - B HG 2463 M848S 1999
U1  - 332.1/092 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Morgan, J. Pierpont 
KW  - Bankers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Banqueros
KW  - Biografías
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Capitalists and financiers
KW  - Capitalistas
KW  - Art
KW  - Collectors and collecting
KW  - Coleccionistas y colecciones
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [691]-699) and index
N2  - 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
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