The House of Morgan
AuthorRon Chernow
CountryUnited States
SubjectFinance
GenreHistory, biography
PublisherAtlantic Monthly Press
Publication date
1990
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages812
ISBN0-87113-338-5
OCLC20015083

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance is a non-fiction book by Ron Chernow, published in 1990. It traces the history of four generations of the J.P. Morgan financial empire, on both sides of the Atlantic, from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987.[1]

The reviewer for The New York Times Book Review said, "As a portrait of finance, politics and the world of avarice and ambition on Wall Street, the book has the movement and tension of an epic novel. It is, quite simply, a tour de force."[2]

Chernow later completed a history of the German-Jewish Warburg banking family (The Warburgs, 1993) and a collection of the essays on "the decline and fall of the great financial dynasties" (The Death of the Banker, 1997).

Awards

The book won the 1990 U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction.[3]

References

  1. ^ "The House of Morgan (review)". Blue Rectangle. Archived from the original on November 28, 2012.
  2. ^ Jeffrey E. Garten, "Their Street Was Paved With Gold", The New York Times, March 18, 1990.
  3. ^ "National Book Awards – 1990". National Book Foundation. Retrieved March 24, 2012.


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