Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse writing With almost no money for

With almost no money for food orshelter

but he has no idea what’s on the menu for the night: not only does every diner have a bone to pick with another

Achingly honest and profoundly challenging

Over a third of us are now single

and a more just society for all

Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse writing With almost no money forA century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U. S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, the confidant (and rival) of Theodore Roosevelt, England's Edward VII,