Jean Strouse > Quotes

“50th and 58th Streets came to be known as Vanderbilt”
― Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier

“51st and 52nd Streets for $700,000 in 1879—the year”
― Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier

“Constance, with her plainness, deafness, and superior age (she was three years older than Henry), probably did not strike Alice as a serious rival for her brother’s love.”
― Jean Strouse, Alice James

“back — and I stretched myself in comfort on the green couch in the library and contemplated the heap of nice white paper bundles on the piano — Then I was a surprise-party to A.F. and we sat up late and talked of many things. It is ten years since Mr. Fields died and I spent my first Christmas there!” Of Miss Jewett and Mrs. Fields, Henry James wrote that “their reach together was of the firmest and easiest and I verily remember being struck with the stretch of wings that the spirit of Charles Street could bring off.” About the “marriage” between Alice and Katharine, however, Henry was not quite so sanguine. Something in its intensity troubled him, and he would express this unease in The Bostonians.”
― Jean Strouse, Alice James

“Outside the Republican Convention hall, there were plenty of people who did not feel 400 percent bigger and more hopeful in 1900. Although the ferment over silver had died down, the impetus for social change and radical reform had not. Progressive activists and journalists were beginning to focus national attention on the widening gap between rich and poor, on the problems of cities, political corruption, the rights of women, the depletion of natural resources, continuing racial inequality, and the power of big business. The new Governor of Wisconsin, Republican reformer Robert M. La Follette, gained national prominence pledging to”
― Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier