EAN: 9780802144652

THE HOUSE OF MORGAN - RON CHERNOW KARTONIERT (TB)

The National Book Award–winning history of American finance by the renowned biographer and
author of Hamilton : "A tour de force" ( New York Times Book Review ). The House of Morgan is a
panoramic story of four generations in the powerful Morgan family and their secretive firms
that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan's
empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987 
acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family's private saga and the
rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved—a world that included
Charles Lindbergh  Henry Ford  Franklin Roosevelt  Nancy Astor  and Winston Churchill. A
masterpiece of financial history—it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and
selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth
Century— The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men
who ran it. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the money and power behind
the major historical events of the last 150 years.

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