Introduction

The Legacy

Part 1: Leadership in London, 1854-1890

1. New England Inheritance

2. George Peabody's Partner

3. Preparing for Leadership

4. New Houses Built on Old Foundations

5. Domestic and Foreign Private Banking: Functions and Organization

6. Bankers for the United States and Other Nations, 1870-1890

7. Railroad and Other Corporate Financings, 1870-1890

8. The First Watershed

Part 2: New York's Ascendancy, 1890-1913

9. Gold for the United States Treasury: Morgan and American Government Finance in the 1890s

10. Railroad Reorganizer and Industrial Consolidator

11. Increased Strength Abroad: Financing Foreign Governments and Enterprises in the 1890s

12. J. P. Morgan and His Firms in the Early Twentieth Century

13. Preeminence in Corporate Finance

14. World Banker

15. Banker of Last Resort

16. Foreign Loans in the Postpanic Years

17. Domestic Finance, 1908-1913

18. Morgan on Trial

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index