Morgan, Jean Strouse
Morgan, Jean Strouse
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Morgan
American Financier

Author: Jean Strouse

Narrator: Nelson Runger

Unabridged: 43 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/08/2011

Synopsis

Noted biographer Jean Strouse has won the Bancroft Prize and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts. Her work has appeared in major magazines including The New Yorker and Newsweek. In Morgan, she creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking. Contemporaries described J. Pierpoint Morgan as "the financial Moses of the New World." He was also called "a beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power ." To separate the legend from the man, Jean Strouse uses a wealth of uncataloged biographical documents from the Pierpoint Morgan Library. She shows J.Pierpoint Morgan in the full context of his childhood and health, travels and tastes, personal affairs and business relationships. Through Nelson Runger's thoughtful narration, this accessible biography becomes a fascinating audio production. Morgan sheds light on the life of a remarkable man, but it also helps us better understand today's international finance. Note: This is a two-part title. When taking advantage of specials such as the introductory offer, it counts as two books .

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on October 08, 2018

Have you heard the one about the rich man who, when asked how much it cost to maintain his yacht, replied that if you have to ask, you can't afford it? That was J. Pierpoint Morgan. This is a serious biography about that man, by a really smart biographer, Jean Strouse. She is a Bancroft Prize winner......more

Goodreads review by aPriL does feral sometimes on July 18, 2019

In my opinion, based on the information in this book 'Morgan: American Financier', J. Pierpont Morgan (1837 - 1913) is one of those people of history who can be judged more positively in hindsight than many other so-called wealthy 'robber-baron' men of America. Besides being a cultured and worldly i......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 25, 2020

[URL not allowed]-GO When published in 1999, Jean Strouse's "Morgan: American Financier" was the first full-scale biography of J.P. Morgan in several decades. Strouse is also the author of "Alice James, A Biography" which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. She is currently w......more

Goodreads review by Lindsey on June 05, 2011

I wasn't thrilled by this one. I much preferred Ron Chernow's The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance which seemed much more detailed despite the fact that it covers Junius, Pierpont, Jack and beyond rather than Strouse's primary focus on Pierpont.......more

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