800 Napkins, 47 Finger Bowls
Zachary Leader, 16 March 2000
Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse.
Harvill, 816 pp., £25, June 1999,9781860463556 Show More
by Jean Strouse.
Harvill, 816 pp., £25, June 1999,
“... little of the venom or relish of such fellow plutocrats as Henry Clay Frick, Andrew Carnegie or John D. Rockefeller. Most criticism he ignored, cultivating a forbidding taciturnity. ‘He left no record of his response’ is a familiar motif in the biography. What Morgan left instead – and what the biography exhaustively records and explains – are ... ”