The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance / Ron Chernow.

• The baronial age, 1838-1913 -- The diplomatic age, 1913-1948 -- The casino age, 1948-1989.

• This book is the story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J.P. Morgan's empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, the author paints a portrait of the family's private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved, including Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. An account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, this book provides a look at the real power -- the money -- behind the historical events, the eminent statesmen, and the industrial empires that have transformed the world in the last century and a half. 

Ämnesord

Banker  (sao)

Banks and banking  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Banks and banking  (LCSH)

United States.  (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Biographies.  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.

Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943.

Lamont, Thomas W. (Thomas William), 1870-1948.

Institutionsnamn

Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York -- History.

Morgan Stanley (Firm) -- History.

J.P. Morgan & Co -- History.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

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Klassifikation

HG2613.N54 (LCC)

332.1/2/097471 (DDC)

Qae (kssb/8)