Otis Chandler's Reviews > Morgan: American Financier

Morgan by Jean Strouse

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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
8.79% "Very dry, but some great historical tidbits so far..."
12/29/2008 page 91
11.43% "Interesting that he had such an international upbringing..."
01/10/2009 page 130
16.33% "I didn't know there have been two Great Depressions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grea..."
01/26/2009 page 170
21.36% "Learning about the attempt to go on the silver standard - Morgan was against it."
02/12/2009 page 259
32.54% "Morgan rescued and ran the Reading railroad"

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message 1: by Brian (new)

Brian yeah, that's what i hear. after the first billion dollars, it just gets kind of boring....haven't had that problem yet.


Otis Chandler Haha. We need a "like" button on comments for cases like this :)


message 3: by rivka (new)

rivka Not you too!


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