Otis Chandler's Reviews > Morgan: American Financier
Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse, Random House
by Jean Strouse, Random House
Otis Chandler's review
bookshelves: business, biography, didntfinish
Sep 15, 11
bookshelves: business, biography, didntfinish
Read from September 15, 2008 to September 15, 2010
Loved learning about Morgan and Jay and the rest. Very slow and dry and I gave up halfway as it was just taking too long. This book needs to be cut down by about 2/3.
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Reading Progress
| 12/18/2008 | page 70 |
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8.79% | "Very dry, but some great historical tidbits so far..." |
| 12/29/2008 | page 91 |
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11.43% | "Interesting that he had such an international upbringing..." |
| 01/10/2009 | page 130 |
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16.33% | "I didn't know there have been two Great Depressions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grea..." |
| 01/26/2009 | page 170 |
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21.36% | "Learning about the attempt to go on the silver standard - Morgan was against it." |
| 02/12/2009 | page 259 |
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32.54% | "Morgan rescued and ran the Reading railroad" |
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Sep 15, 2011 02:44pm
yeah, that's what i hear. after the first billion dollars, it just gets kind of boring....haven't had that problem yet.
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