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J.P. Morgan

BiographiesBankers, traders and financiers

Banker; organiser of U.S. Steel and General Electric; twice personally backstopped the U.S. financial system.

6 biographies about them

Biographies about them 6

Two first-rank books, one a family-and-firm history and one a life.

The House of Morgan
The House of Morgan
Ron Chernow · 1990 · Four generations of the bank; won the National Book Award.
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Morgan: American Financier
Morgan: American Financier
Jean Strouse · 1999 · The definitive biography of the man himself.
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Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It
Louis D. Brandeis · 1914 · The contemporary case against the Morgan money trust.
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The Morgans: Private International Bankers,
The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913
Vincent P. Carosso · 1987 · Scholarly firm history; the archival base later popular biographies drew on.
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The Panic of 1907
The Panic of 1907
Robert F. Bruner, Sean D. Carr · 2007 · The crisis he personally halted, reconstructed as a case study.
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The Great Pierpont Morgan
The Great Pierpont Morgan
Frederick Lewis Allen · 1949 · Readable mid-century portrait, now superseded.
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