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Morgan: American Financier

Auteur(s): Jean Strouse
Narrateur(s): Nelson Runger
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Noted biographer Jean Strouse has won the Bancroft Prize and received fellowships from the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowments for the Humanities and Arts. Her work has appeared in major magazines, including The New Yorker and Newsweek. In Morgan, she creates the first complete portrait of a man who defined American commerce and banking. Contemporaries described J. Pierpoint Morgan as “the financial Moses of the New World”. He was also called “a beefy, red-faced, thick-necked financial bully, drunk with wealth and power….”

To separate the legend from the man, Jean Strouse uses a wealth of uncataloged biographical documents from the Pierpoint Morgan Library. She shows J.Pierpoint Morgan in the full context of his childhood and health, travels and tastes, personal affairs and business relationships. Through Nelson Runger’s thoughtful narration, this accessible biography becomes a fascinating audio production. Morgan sheds light on the life of a remarkable man, but it also helps us to better understand today’s international finance.

©1999 Jean Strouse (P)1999 Recorded Books, LLC
Affaires Histoire Professionnels et universitaires Biographie Services bancaires Âge d’or Argent Socialisme Capitalisme Amérique Latine New York Impérialisme Fiscalité Histoire américaine Royaume-Uni Guerre Moyen Âge Autodétermination

Ce que les critiques en disent

"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)
"Enormously entertaining." ( New York Daily News)
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