Morgan, American Financier
This magisterial biography, based extensively on new material, draws a definitive, full-scale portrait of Morgan’s tumultuous life both in and out of the public eye. Award-winning biographer Jean Strouse vividly portrays the financial colossus, the avid collector of art, and the entirely human character behind all the myths. Brilliantly crafted, epic in scope, Morgan reveals a man we have never seen before, offering new insights on the culture, political struggles, and social conflicts of America’s Gilded Age.
New York Times best seller. Finalist for The New Yorker Book Award and The National Book Critics Circle Award. Short-listed among “Best Books of 1999” by The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Time, Business Week, The Washington Post, National Public Radio, The New York Post.
Praise for Morgan, American Financier
Reviews
March 29, 1999
David Michaelis, The New York Observer
April 4, 1999
Robert Heilbroner, The Los Angeles Times
April 22, 1999
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
April 22, 1999
Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books
July 1, 1999
Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs
Interviews & Talks
April 15, 1999
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
April 20, 1999
Booknotes, with Brian Lamb, CSPAN
April 20, 1999
The Diane Rehm Show (audio)
September 8, 2001
Washington Journal, CSPAN