“A thoroughly documented, conscientiously nonpartisan, and rounded life of the financial colossus . . . More completely than those who have labored over this gigantic figure before, Strouse exposes the whole man.”—The Boston Globe
“A masterpiece . . . No one else has told the tale of J. Pierpont Morgan in the detail, depth, and understanding of Jean Strouse.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“A magnificent biography . . . a breathtaking accomplishment . . . an incomparable book.”— American Heritage
“[Strouse’s] command of the varied and complex aspects of Morgan’s life and work is nothing short of dazzling, and her writing is exemplary, even in passages dealing with the complexities of high finance.”—Houston Chronicle
“Strouse is no apologist for Morgan, but she finds much in him to admire and goes far past the stereotypical robber baron image to which muckrakers and their heirs reduced him. . . . It is, in the end, the largest accomplishment of this ambitious book that it gives us not a myth, but a man.”—The Washington Post Book World
“The Morgan that Jean Strouse has brought to life in her masterful, long- awaited biography is deeply human, the most intricate and integrated portrait we have yet had. . . . Her storytelling [has] the richness and penetration of a novel.”—New York Observer
“By uncovering the big- government impulses of capitalism’s patron saint, Strouse gives us a generous sense of Morgan’s contradictions. She peers thoughtfully behind the myth of an economic despot to discover a more nuanced figure.”—Fortune
“[Strouse] uses marvelous detail . . . to breathe life into a nineteenth-century icon. And she makes plain and readable for the layman the . . . financial controversies of Morgan’s day.”—USA Today
“[A] brilliant new study of J. P. Morgan.”—Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Elegant, impressively researched . . . With a sure command of her narrative and an instinct for the telling detail, Strouse has created a subtle, shaded portrait.”—Chicago Tribune
“Based on painstaking research on sources perhaps never tapped, including the Morgan family papers, this study is likely to be definitive for a hundred years.”—Baltimore Sun
“Strouse has amassed a huge amount of information about Morgan. . . . Her style brings clarity to nineteenth-century financial matters and her storytelling is riveting.”—Hartford Courant
“[Strouse] is the first to integrate the very personal biography of a man previously seen as stock villain or hero [and] to set this complex character in the context of richly reported social history.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Through Strouse’s use of new sources and her exceptional ability to tell a riveting, intricately detailed story, she has scored a resounding triumph.”—New York Post
“Enormously entertaining.”—New York Daily News
“Graceful, lucid.”—Foreign Affairs
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