The House of Morgan

<div>Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago and now considered a classic <I>The House of Morgan</I> is the most ambitious history ever written about American finance. It is a rich panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful secretive firms they spawned ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the trajectory of J. P. Morgan&#146;s empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987 acclaimed author Ron Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the family&#146;s private saga and the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they moved&#151;a world that included Charles Lindbergh Henry Ford Franklin Roosevelt Nancy Astor and Winston Churchill. A masterpiece of financial history&#151;it was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century&#151;<I>The House of Morgan</I> is 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.</div>