New York: Random House, 1999. xv, 796 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "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." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

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Jean Strouse is the author of Alice James: A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and Morgan: American Financier . Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, Architectural Digest, and Slate . She has been president of the Society of American Historians, a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the executive council of the Authors Guild, she is currently the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 107845
Title: Morgan: American Financier
Author: Strouse, Jean
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st
ISBN 10: 0375501665
ISBN 13: 9780375501661
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1999
Size: 8vo
Bookseller catalogs: Museums; Patronage / Individual Collectors; American / 4. Late 19th Century;

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