LEADER 03816nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910786971203321 005 20230912122851.0 010 $a0-674-07557-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674075573 035 $a(CKB)2670000000368297 035 $a(EBL)3301314 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886117 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11475477 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886117 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10817316 035 $a(PQKB)11565451 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301314 035 $a(DE-B1597)210464 035 $a(OCoLC)843880785 035 $a(OCoLC)979575862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674075573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301314 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713641 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7186200 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000368297 100 $a20130124d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u|uu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGentlemen bankers$b[electronic resource] $ethe world of J. P. Morgan /$fSusie Pak 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (344 p.) 225 0 $aHarvard Studies in Business History ;$v51 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-07303-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE: Gentlemen Banking Before 1914 --$tCHAPTER TWO: The Social World of Private Bankers --$tCHAPTER THREE: Anti-Semitism in Economic Networks --$tCHAPTER FOUR: Disrupting the Balance: The Great War --$tCHAPTER FIVE: The Significance of Social Ties: Harvard --$tCHAPTER SIX: Complex International Alliances: Japan --$tCHAPTER SEVEN: The End of Private Banking at the Morgans --$tCONCLUSION: Writing the History of Networks --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aGentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the twentieth century, private banking was a personal enterprise in which business relationships were a statement of identity and reputation. In an era when ethnic and religious differences were pronounced and anti-Semitism was prevalent, Anglo-American and German-Jewish elite bankers lived in their respective cordoned communities, seldom interacting with one another outside the business realm. Ironically, the tacit agreement to maintain separate social spheres made it easier to cooperate in purely financial matters on Wall Street. But as Susie Pak demonstrates, the Morgans' exceptional relationship with the German-Jewish investment bank Kuhn, Loeb & Co., their strongest competitor and also an important collaborator, was entangled in ways that went far beyond the pursuit of mutual profitability. Delving into the archives of many Morgan partners and legacies, Gentlemen Bankers draws on never-before published letters and testimony to tell a closely focused story of how economic and political interests intersected with personal rivalries and friendships among the Wall Street aristocracy during the first half of the twentieth century. 410 0$aHarvard Studies in Business History 606 $aBankers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aBanks and banking$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aBankers 615 0$aBanks and banking$xHistory. 676 $a332.1/230973 700 $aPak$b Susie$01554585 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786971203321 996 $aGentlemen bankers$93815905 997 $aUNINA