Achingly honest and profoundly challenging
an organization conceived to bring love into the life of every orphan in China and one that has actually managed to fulfill its promise
and dimly romantic Guy Clinch
It is an examination by one of our major writers of the corrupt and corrupting ideologies that enabled the People's Templeto flourish
Achieving eleven Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths)
Morgan: American Financier, Jean Strouse writing Achingly honest and profoundly challengingA century ago, J. Pierpont Morgan bestrode the financial world like a colossus. The organizing force behind General Electric, U. S. Steel, and vast railroad empires, he served for decades as America's unofficial central banker: a few months after he died in 1913, the Federal Reserve replaced the private system he had devised. An early supporter of Thomas Edison and Andrew Carnegie, the confidant (and rival) of Theodore Roosevelt, England's Edward VII,