The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance.

CHERNOW, Ron.

Item Number: 3934

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

First edition of the historian’s National Book Award-winning work. Octavo. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Ron Chernow on the title page.

The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. 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. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A 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. P. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987.