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Gentlemen Bankers

The World of J. P. Morgan
  • Susie J. Pak
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013
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Gentlemen Bankers focuses on the social and economic circles of one of America’s most renowned and influential financiers, J. P. Morgan, to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Pak Susie J. :

Susie J. Pak is Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University.

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Gentlemen Bankers is a window into a world that, for one fleeting moment, dominated American finance. By concentrating on the nonfinancial aspects of that world Pak greatly enriches our understanding of the entire era.
-- John Steele Gordon Wall Street Journal

Pak writes clearly and makes a strong case that the Morgan bank should be considered in its social as well as its economic context.
-- Lawrence Maxted Library Journal

This fascinating book presents the social history of America’s leading private banking house and analyzes the sources of its prestige and influence. Pak has written a persuasive and engaging volume and an excellent work of business history.
-- Eric D. Hilt, Wellesley College

In an era when anti-Semitism was widespread, why did WASP and Jewish bankers, who didn’t really like one another, often cooperate in investment banking syndicates? The answer, according to Susie Pak, is that they worked well together so long as their social lives were totally separate. She explores these and other aspects of the economic and social networks of these bankers in this provocative book.
-- Richard Sylla, New York University


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June 10, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674075573
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368
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18 halftones, 6 maps, 11 tables
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