title: J. P. Morgan: Banker to a Growing Nation (American Business Tycoons)
author:  Jeremy Byman 
description: Grade 6-10-Lively and accessible, these books present their subjects in the context of their times, clearly explaining political, economic, social, and cultural issues so that even readers with little background knowledge will be able to grasp each man's importance. The accounts show readers why Morgan and Rockefeller-titans in their fields-had supporters and detractors. The explanations of business and finance are understandable without slighting the complexities of the issues at hand. Students will come away from these books with an understanding of these men and the mark they made on a growing nation. The black-and-white reproductions, mainly of individuals, are of average quality.<br /><i>Marilyn Heath, Belton-Honea Path High School, Honea Path, SC </i><br />Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Henry Kitchell Webster
  
  The Banker and the Bear
  
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  THE BIG NEST
  
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  New Edition
  
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  This Edition first published in 2014
  
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  ISBN: 9781910343197 (ebk)
  
  Contents
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  Business Library
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  BEGINNINGS
  
  FOR more than forty years Bagsbury and Company was old John Bagsbury himself ;
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