ATDTDA (2): J. (P)ierpont Morgan (33.27)

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

For some reason (this is Robin here, attempting to be heard 
through thickets of cross references), this image of J.P. Morgan 
by Edward Steichen burned itself into my memory many years 
ago, being the vicious archetype of the Robber Baron.

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And the intense energy of a decade comes to life in his portraits 
of a diverse cast ranging from Richard Strauss to J. P. Morgan, 
Maurice Maeterlinck to George Bernard Shaw--and Steichen
 himself, the founding auteur of a century of celebrity. . . .

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6674.html

"The book is dominated by portraits (J. P. Morgan, 
G. B. Shaw), but the haunting, green-tinted cover 
image of the Flatiron Building is flatly amazing."

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780691048734&z=
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If his methods seem unusually rapacious, that's because Ross 
serves the system at a particularly tumultuous time and in the 
most tumultuous places. But then so did J.P. Morgan, the man 
who reorganized bankrupt railroads and in the process 
consolidated and centralized what was then the country's 
most important industry.

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