Based on extensive interviews and access to the family and business archives, The House of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, 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. 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. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. But it was a doorstop that made many of my morning commutes pass by, with a riveting combination of history, politics, economics, and finance that tells the story of the world's most famous American bank. This story has aspects of an action story and fewer of the romance. At over 700 pages, 'The House of Morgan' is a book that could be used as a doorstop. The danger to the Morgans and those around them is more central to the story. It is the definitive account of the rise of the modern financial world.Ī 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. Secret Crush (The House of Morgan Book 1) This story has a much different feel to me than the later ones. The one-hundred-year epic sweep of the bank’s rise and evolution tracks the United States’ rise as the world financial center, a position wrestled from the Brits in the first half of the 20 th Century. Together or on their own, Morgan firms have been involved in remarkable ventures, escapades, and scandals. Even in paperback form, The House of Morgan arrives bigger than a breadbox. Over the years, however, legislation (notably, the Glass-Steagall Act), wars, and other factors severed the ties that once bound them. 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. The House of Morgan, Chernow shows, spawned consequential enterprises on both sides of the Atlantic. 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.

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