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MorganJean Strouse, Random House Inc.

Morgan

Jean Strouse, Random House Inc.
1999796 pages
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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…

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7 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2014
    Random House Trade Paperbacks · 848 pages · 9780812987041
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    Harper Perennial · 848 pages · 9780060955892
  • Hardcover · English · 1999
    Random House · 9780679462750
  • Other · English · 2012
    Penguin Random House · 9781299046085
  • Other · English · 2000
    Tandem Library · 796 pages · 9781417702268
  • Other · English · 1999
    Random House · 816 pages · 9780375501661
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