Jean Strouse & 'Morgan: American Financier' [audio 34min]

Award-winning historian Jean Strouse prefaces her discussion of her new book with a warning: "It took J.P.Morgan seventy-six years to live his life, and it took me fifteen years to write about it." In this short presentation, she touches on different aspects of her research into the life of J.P. Morgan, America's most influential banker. She looks at the reasons for his success and delves into his inscrutable personal life. Strouse's extensive scholarship offers many insights into her subject, whose name is in the financial news headlines once again.