Published to critical acclaim twenty years ago, and now considered a  classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written  about American finance. It is a rich, panoramic story of four  generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned,  ones that would transform the modern financial world. Tracing the  trajectory of J. P. Morgans empire from its obscure beginnings in  Victorian London to the financial crisis of 1987, acclaimed author Ron  Chernow paints a fascinating portrait of the familys private saga and  the rarefied world of the American and British elite in which they  moveda world that included Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Franklin  Roosevelt, Nancy Astor, and Winston Churchill.A masterpiece of financial  historyit was awarded the 1990 National Book Award for Nonfiction and  selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books  of the Twentieth CenturyThe House of Morgan is 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.