The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Ron Chernow
from Grove Press

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Learn the history of American finance as a whole by studying one titanic banking empire.
  Chernow pioneered the popular study of corporate history with this sweeping history of the Morgan banking empire back in 1990. This is a superb bit of history writing on almost every level: it's intensively researched and documented; it's a great story with a real narrative arc and emotional tension; it has far reaching implications in the fields of economics and American history and synthetically knits together these two areas with insight and revelatory vision.
  The story of the House of Morgan isn't... more info

• The House of Morgan
  Ron Chernow is one terrific writer. Hard to put down his books, including the biography of Alexander Hamilton and the House of Morgan.
  His in depth research and writing ability are superb.

• Chernow's breadth of knowlege is breathtaking
  "The House of Morgan" by Ron Chernow gives full reign to the author's access to never-before seen material and lively prose as he majestically takes the reader on a tale that spans two centuries and intersects global events. Despite being a historian without an insider's knowledge of Wall Street Chernow has sculpted a book that covers not only financial happenings but their political and social contexts. Chernow doesn't flinch as he discusses the larger-than-life John Pierpont Morgan Snr's controversial... more info

• Great Book if Specifically Interested in JPM
  This book took me a long time to read. I started the book and found the first half of the book regarding Pierpont Morgan's life, his family and the bank he built quite interesting. The book drags on with details at points throughout the last half of the book and focuses much of its time on Morgan Stanley, but the author's strong research and writing ability stays constant. The last several chapters were more interesting to me and dealt with the changing face of investment and commercial banking through the... more info

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