商品簡介
A fascinating portrait of American financier J. P. Morgan draws on much new material to provide a close-up look at the private life and public career of the man who created some of the nation's greatest industrial trusts, amassed a remarkable art collection, and became a one-man Federal Reserve. 35,000 first printing.
作者簡介
Jean Strouse is the author of Alice James, A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and Morgan, American Financier. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, Architectural Digest, and Slate. She has been president of the Society of American Historians, a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the executive council of the Authors Guild, she is currently the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library.
From the Hardcover edition.
