The House of Morgan – Full Audiobook

Meet your next audiobook: The House of Morgan written by Ron Chernow. A solid pick in Biographies & Memoirs.

Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a persuasive 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. ©2014 Ron Chernow (P)2014 Blackstone Audio 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. Acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as “sharply researched and written”, the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the forceful, secretive firms they spawned. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world. A absorbing 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. 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.

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