Morgan: American Financier
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Jean Strouse's monumental biography of Morgan and the Gilded Age he exemplified has been hailed as a masterpiece by the Los Angeles Times while picking up raves from The New York Times, Newsweek, Publishers Weekly, and The Wall Street Journal. Was Morgan an enthralling celebrity or an oppressor of the masses? If anybody has the answer, it's Strouse, who spent 15 years pouring over every last detail or the tycoon's public and private lives.The New York Times Book Review - Richard Lingeman...Solidly researched....elucidates in ample detail Morgan's financial maneuverings....If the mysteries of Morgan's inner psyche remain dark, Strouse has clarified the public career and swept away some of the mud slung at him by previous biographers....Yet she does not seek to exculpate her subject...
Contents Introduction........................................................ix PART I: CHARACTER Chapter 1: Money and Trust.......................................3 Chapter 2: Pierponts and Morgans................................17 Chapter 3: A Moral Education....................................31 Chapter 4: Foreign Affairs......................................49 Chapter 5: New York.............................................69 Chapter 6: A House Divided......................................87 PART II: HEIR APPARENT Chapter 7: Questions of Control................................105 Chapter 8: New Directions......................................129 Chapter 9: Ill Winds...........................................145 Chapter 10: "The Future Is in Our Own Hands"...................167 Chapter 11: Family Affairs and Professional Ethics.............189 Chapter 12: "The Gilded Age"...................................215 Chapter 13: A Railroad Bismarck?...............................239 Chapter 14: Fathers and Sons...................................263 PART III: SENIOR Chapter 15: In Private.........................................285 Chapter 16: Consolidations.....................................301 Chapter 17: Romance............................................325 Chapter 18: Politics of Gold...................................339 Chapter 19: Acquisitions and Losses............................361 Chapter 20: The Dynamo and the Virgin..........................391 Chapter 21: Raid...............................................417 Chapter 22: Trouble............................................435 Chapter 23: Community of Interest on the Atlantic..............457 PART FOUR: PATRON Chapter 24: Collector..........................................485 Chapter 25: Singular Women.....................................509 Chapter 26: Back Number?.......................................533 Chapter 27: "More Colossal than Ever"..........................553 Chapter 28: Panic..............................................573 Chapter 29: Trio...............................................597 Chapter 30: Portraits..........................................629 Chapter 31: Trust and Money....................................659 Afterword..........................................................687 Select Bibliography................................................691 Notes..............................................................701 Acknowledgments....................................................757 Index..............................................................761
