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_aStrouse, Jean, _d1945- _98224 |
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_aMorgan : _bAmerican financier / _cJean Strouse. |
| 250 | _a1st ed. | ||
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_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c1999. |
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_axv, 796 pages, [32] pages of plates : _billustrations, portraits ; _c25 cm. |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [691]-699) and index. | ||
| 520 | _aA 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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