In this authoritative and highly readable biography Andrew Sinclair traces the private and professional lives of a man whose name is virtually synonymous with American business : J. Pierpont Morgan (1837- I9I3).
At the turn of the century he seemed the most powerful financier since Midas, and the most lavish art collector since Maecenas. Driven by a lust to accumulate and to dominate, he had gargantuan appetites for money, power, and beauty in art and women.
Contains 16 pages of b/w photographs.