An Unlikely Trust: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Improbable Partnership That Remade American Business

by Gerard Helferich

Book Overview

At the dawn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan were the two most powerful men in America, perhaps the world. As the nation's preeminent financier, Morgan presided over an elemental shift in American business, away from family-owned companies and toward modern corporations of unparalleled size and influence. As president, Theodore Roosevelt expanded the power of that office to an unprecedented degree, seeking to rein...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493025775
• ISBN13: 9781493025770
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"