Morgan : American Financier
by Strouse, Jean
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0375501665
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501661
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Synopsis
Jean Strouse is the author of Alice James: A Biography, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and Morgan: American Financier . Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Newsweek, Architectural Digest, and Slate . She has been president of the Society of American Historians, a consultant (oral historian) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the executive council of the Authors Guild, she is currently the Sue Ann and John Weinberg Director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153277
- Title
- Morgan : American Financier
- Author
- Strouse, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375501665
- ISBN 13
- 9780375501661
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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