J.P. Morgan

by Stanley Jackson

This full-length portrait of the aristocrat among the nineteenth-century business barons profiles the man who amassed a huge fortune and became the creditor of governments, the intimate of royalty, and the founder of a great library and art museum

332 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1983

Reviews

[Patrick Belair · Rating 3 out of 5]

J.P. Morgan,What a very interesting person he was. This is older book I found it entertaining.This man held so much power it's scary. Today he would most likely be in jail or awaiting indictment. Times were different then. He was most likely the last of the true power players in early modern or modern finance.The deals he put together will stagger the mind.

[Austin Lugo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although a terrible human being for a variety of reasons (racism, sexism, classist), J.P. Morgan is an endlessly fascinating individual. It is clear that Morgan was rarely a man lead by logic or reason, but always instinct. And for better or worse, it worked.

Now is our biographer a little light on the negatives (as so many biographers are)? Sure. But our author is willing to accept the good with the bad, the strange juxtaposition of so many of these power hungry figures (think of Rockefeller's devotion to his christian faith). But thats why it works, and, arguably, thats why any great biography works. People have been and always will be walking contradictions. What we speak and preach is never how we act in the real world, and Morgan is a victim of that as much as anyone else.

[Isaac Isiko · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

If the "Robber Barron" era intrigues you, you should read this biography of one of America's most influential financiers: John Pierpont Morgan. JP Morgan was a shrewd deal maker and literally helped the U.S. financial system avoid financial collapse during the so-called Banker's Panic of 1907.