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020 _a186046355X (alk. paper)
020 _a9781860463556 (alk. paper)
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050 1 4 _aB HG 2463
_bM848S 1999
082 0 0 _a332.1/092
100 1 _aStrouse, Jean,
_d1945-
_98224
245 1 0 _aMorgan :
_bAmerican financier /
_cJean Strouse.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bRandom House,
_c1999.
300 _axv, 796 pages, [32] pages of plates :
_billustrations, portraits ;
_c25 cm.
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
600 1 0 _aMorgan, J. Pierpont
_q(John Pierpont),
_d1837-1913.
_98225
650 0 _aBankers
_zUnited States
_xBiography.
650 4 _aBanqueros
_vBiografías
_zEstados Unidos
_931999
650 0 _aCapitalists and financiers
_zUnited States
_xBiography.
650 4 _aCapitalistas
_vBiografías
_zEstados Unidos
_993
650 0 _aArt
_xCollectors and collecting
_zUnited States
_xBiography.
650 4 _aColeccionistas y colecciones
_zEstados Unidos
_98226
_vBiografías
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random058/98035028.html
856 4 1 _3Sample text
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856 4 2 _3Publisher description
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0411/98035028.html
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