John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan

(1837–1913)
Powerful Financier and Insider

Victoria Woodhull Tennessee Celeste Claflin Cornelius Vanderbilt Reverend Henry Ward Beecher Elizabeth Cady Stanton Frederic Douglass J. P. Morgan Susan B. Anthony

John Pierpont (J. P.) MorganPrivate financial advisor to Victoria Woodhull and financier for The Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Morgan provided part of the funding, along with Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826–1893) for the Gold Scandal of 1869. The scandal brought the U.S. economy to the brink of total failure with the simultaneous collapses of both the stock and gold markets. Everyone involved with Vanderbilt on the largest manipulation of the free markets in financial history made incredible sums of money.

Powerful Financier and Insider

Young Morgan was the son of one of the most successful expatriated Americans, Junius Spencer Morgan, operating in London, England. Vanderbilt had conducted business with Julius for decades before calling the prodigal son, J.P. in to work with him. Vanderbilt endorsed Junius to secure and handle funding from the Bank of England for the Union forces during the Civil War. Similarly, Joseph Anthony Drexel was the son of another long-time financier associate for Vanderbilt, Francis Martin Drexel, who placed his boy at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

After successfully working for Vanderbilt in 1869, the two second-generation bankers formed Drexel, Morgan & Co. in 1871. That merchant bank became J.P. Morgan Bank & Co., financing the industrial revolution and providing emergency funding to the United States government on several occasions.

Outrageous; The Victoria Woodhull Saga Vol 1 Book Image

This debut novel won 12 literary awards. OUTRAGEOUS, traces an icon of Victorian American feminism, Victoria Woodhull from childhood poverty and horrific abuse to becoming one of the wealthiest women in America, founding the first woman-owned brokerage firm on Wall Street, and the first woman-owned newspaper. Victoria will stop at nothing to achieve her destiny.

Scandalous; The Victoria Woodhull Saga Vol 2 Book Image

Volume 2 of The Victoria Woodhull Saga brings Victorian America and the struggle of women to life. The facts amaze, audacity engages, lascivious adventures entertain, and the abuses of power render all of it Scandalous!

Scandalous has won 5 literary awards.

Neal Katz Awards

2016 Winner of three Gold Medals: IBPA Ben Franklin, Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book by a Publisher, the IPPY Award for Best Historical Fiction, and Gold Medal for Historical Fiction/Personage by Reader's Favorite. Other Awards: Finalist in the Historical Fiction category of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Second Place winner of the IndieReader Discovery Award for Best Fiction, Best New Fiction in the International Book Awards for 2016, Finalist in two categories Independent Author Network Book of the Year, Chantecleer Goethe Award Finalist, Shelf Unbound Notable 100, and one of IndieReader's Best Books of 2016.