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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the by Ron Chernow

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By Ron Chernow

Original yr of publication: 1990; 2010

The winner of the nationwide ebook Award and now thought of a vintage, The residence of Morgan is the main bold heritage ever written approximately an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by means of The Wall road magazine as "brilliantly researched and written," the ebook tells the wealthy, panoramic tale of 4 generations of Morgans and the strong, secretive corporations they spawned. it's the definitive account of the increase of the fashionable monetary global. A gripping background of banking and the booms and busts that formed the realm on each side of the Atlantic, the home of Morgan strains the trajectory of the J. P. Morgan empire from its imprecise beginnings in Victorian London to the crash of 1987. Ron Chernow paints a desirable portrait of the personal saga of the Morgans and the rarefied international of the yank and British elite within which they moved. in response to large interviews and entry to the kinfolk and company data, The condominium of Morgan is an investigative masterpiece, a compelling account of a notable establishment and the lads who ran it, and an important ebook for figuring out the cash and tool in the back of the key old occasions of the final one hundred fifty years.

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Photo by Mark Philbrick; courtesy of Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship, Brigham Young University enhance the work’s appeal. 45 Joseph did not apologize for the complexity of his book. After all, one of the Bible’s most distinctive features was its complicated nature. The Book of Joseph’s Gold Bible 33 Mormon echoed the Bible not only in this regard, but in its very language and multibook format. Joseph translated the plates in a style of language strangely reminiscent of the English found in the King James Version.

He decried those who became rich at the cost of the poor around them. 11 The lowliest workman or migrant farmer found himself eligible for baptism and then ordination into a ministry of significance. 12 The theme of equality appears constantly throughout the Book of Mormon, a fact that is well exemplified by characters such as the Nephite King Benjamin who asks his people: “Are we not all beggars? 14 Holy Writ or Humbug? 41 In January 1831, just nine months after the release of the Book of Mormon, Joseph decided to move his Church farther out on the nation’s western frontier in order to gather his Saints into a single community.

Threats against the book also worried Joseph, who, still haunted by the loss of the 116 pages he had entrusted to Harris’s care, instructed Cowdery to recopy the entire manuscript to safeguard the translation. Ultimately, Cowdery’s second copy came to be known as the “Printer’s Manuscript,” and Joseph instructed that the Original and Printer’s Manuscripts never be in Grandin’s print shop at the same time. 40 As a final precaution, Joseph ordered that anyone carrying manuscript pages between the Smith farm and the printing office not travel alone.

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