THE HOUSE OF MORGAN . AN AMERICAN BANKING DYNASTY AND THE RISE OF MODERN FINANCE - RON CHERNOW

Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990, hardcover, illustrated, index, 812 pages, 16 cms x 23.7 cms x 6.6 cms, condition: as new.

Published to critical acclaim and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned, ones 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, acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family's private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved--a world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history--it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century--The House of Morgan is a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years.

RON CHERNOW's, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Award for his contribution to the study of American culture. His second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize for Excellence in Economic Writing and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year's best nonfiction books. In reviewing his collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, the New York Times called the author ''as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades''.