Awards

• Winner of Ambassador Book Awards (Biography/Autobiography) 2000

Overview

Award-winning biographer Strouse offers a landmark profile of America's greatest financier--J.P. Morgan--who organized the nation's railroads, created industrial trusts such as General Electric and U.S. Steel, and created a central bank when the nation had no Federal Reserve.

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[A] masterpiece. . . .No one else has told the story of Pierpont Morgan in the detail, depth and understanding of Jean Strouse, who spent nearly a decade searching for the living truth behind the mythology of Morganalia. -- Los Angeles Times Book Review A magnificent, insightful study. . . .Rich in detail, informed by a wealth of new sources, written in a clear style that wears well, it provides the fullest and most revealing look at this remarkable, complex man that we are likely to get. -- Wall Street Journal In this engrossing story ? an extraordinary accomplishment, filled with the vitality of the biographer and the fascination of her subject ? Morgan has finally met his match. -- Michael Holroyd Strouse is in full command of Pierpont Morgan's personal life, his financial operations, his collecting, and his benefactions, and presents a rich, vivid picture of the background against which they took place?. She has written a magnificent biography, which illuminates her subject and his world. -- New York Review of Books [A] brilliant new study of J.P. Morgan. . . -- Times Literary Supplement Enormously entertaining. -- New York Daily News By uncovering the big-government impulses of capitalism's patron saint, Strouse gives us a generous sense of Morgan's contradictions. She peers thoughtfully behind the myth of an economic despot to discover a more nuanced figure. -- Fortune The Morgan that Jean Strouse has brought to life in her masterful, long-awaited biography is deeply human, the most intricate and integrated portrait we have yet had. . . .her storytelling [has] the richness and penetration of a novel. -- New York Observer Strouse. . .uses marvelous detail. . .tobreathe life into a 19th century icon. And she makes plain and readable for the layman the. . . financial controversies of Morgan's day. -- USA Today

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