Book · 1990 · Nonfiction

The House of Morgan

Name: The House of Morgan
Author: Ron Chernow

An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

Ron Chernow

Grove Press · 812 pages

★ 5.3 editorial score

Four generations of one bank, from Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Chernow's Pierpont Morgan locks New York's bankers in his library until they agree to end the Panic of 1907.

Genre

Financial history Business History Biography

Subject

Finance Money Capitalism Power

Setting

New York City

Time

1990

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