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

CHERNOW, Ron.

Item Number: 129764

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.

First edition of the historian’s National Book Award-winning work. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Signed by the author in the year of publication on the front free ednpaper, “Ron Chernow 3/16/90.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Keith Sheridan Associates.

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.