Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

Large 8vo. xv + [i] + 796 + [1] pp. Bound in original quarter black cloth, gilt, over black boards, in unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. A little wear to lower board edges, but otherwise a very good copy. Deckled fore edge. Signed by author on title page. Illustrated by 16 pages of black and white plates and by whole page black and white plates, within borders paginated in text Detailed biographical study of the US financier and investment banker, J. P. Morgan (1837-1913), who dominated corporate finance and enabled the formation of multination corporations like International Harvester, General Electric and US Steel, and controlled many other companies, e.g. Western Union. As an art collector, he founded the Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum and was a founding member and later president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Jean Strouse (b.1945), US biographer, here showing her ability in elucidating the financial complexities of the era.