#142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan

These industrialists accumulated their wealth in ways most Americans could understand. They dug up something. They discovered something. They built something. But the financiers backing these industrialists, as Americans were just learning, found their riches in the flow of money itself.

Morgan was the most influential of these businessmen. He wasn't the richest. By most counts, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie were. But that didn't matter. He was commanding in ways none could match.

Wherever he sat, he became the head of the table. He was comfortable in his dominion, but Though never with his fame. He had an aristocrat's disdain. For public sentiment.

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