FREDERICK LEWIS ALLEN ON J. PIERPONT MORGAN: "Pierpont Morgan was a man with whom I would have disagreed strongly on most political and economic issues if I had been his contemporary. To me he represented a trend in the direction of economic affairs which had to be altered fro the good of the country. But I am also convinced that he was a man great in character and force, whose immnse influence was in many respects salutary. What I have tried to do, therefore, has been to show what sort of man he really was; how his ideas developed out of his background and the traditions of the group to which he belonged, and out of his experience; how both his ideas and his actions conflicted wih those of others whose background and experience differed from his; and how affected by, the course of American history