Ron Chernow's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Morgan banking dynasty — from Junius Morgan's London bank through J.P. Morgan's Gilded Age dominance through the modern JPMorgan Chase — covering 150 years of American and global finance.
Provides the most comprehensive account of how private banking power shaped American industrial development — and how Morgan's character-based lending philosophy created the institutional culture that persisted for a century.
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