Morgan (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Strouse
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1837-1913
- Setting: The United States
- Principal Characters: John Pierpont Morgan, Junius Spencer Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, New York City, Business or business people, Wealth, Banks, bankers, or banking, Railroads, Collecting or collectors, Finance, Steel
- Locales: United States
Jean Strouse, a freelance journalist, won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy in 1981 for Alice James: A Biography (1980). Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, and Vogue. She spent fifteen years researching and writing her biography of John Pierpont Morgan.
The image of Morgan that emerges from the pages of this biography fits neither the laudatory view of his admirers, who considered him a hero of economic progress and defender...
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