@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674075573,
      recid = {1398639},
      author = {Pak, Susie.},
      title = {Gentlemen bankers the world of J. P. Morgan / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674075573},
      pages = {1 online resource (356 p.) : ill., maps},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"Gentlemen 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" --Publisher's website.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1398639},
}