Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse writing Over a third of us

Over a third of us are now single

With almost no money for food orshelter

How long can one man survive in a world of vampires

Achingly honest and profoundly challenging

Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse writing Over a third of usA century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U. S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, the confidant (and rival) of Theodore Roosevelt, England's Edward VII,