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“Chernow vividly portrays the influence that the Chernow uses his gift forĭescription to bring out vividly the personalities of his principals.” Of the Morgan banks and the men who have run them. “An astonishingly detailed and fascinating story

Life the defunct species of gentleman banker.” With rich detail and warmth, he brings to “Epic…Chernow melds deep insights into the lifeĪnd times of Morgan bankers over 150 years with the flow of world history and

“Chernow deftly mixes biography with economicsĪnd explicates arcane matters of high finance with sparkling clarity…Aįascinating historical journey from Charles Dickens’ London to Tom Wolfe’s New “A panoramic and well-researched look at the most powerful family of banks in America over the last century…Chernow has a supple, refined style.” “To a potentially dry and certainly difficult subject-the influence of high finance on modern life-Chernow brings a lively style and the endurance of a trouper.” Has our tenuous financial system been better described than by Chernow.” “As informative and entertaining a history,Įspecially of the period from 1880 to 1930, as this reviewer has ever read…Nowhere World of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and “As a portrait of finance, politics, and the Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a remarkable institution and the men who ran it, and an essential book for understanding the money and power behind the major historical events of the last 150 years. Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the private saga of the Morgans and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved.

Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world.Ī gripping history of banking and the booms and busts that shaped the world on both sides of the Atlantic, The House of Morgan traces the trajectory of the J. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “brilliantly researched and written,” the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned. Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty.