This fascinating chronicle of the world\'s great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking houses: Hambros, which now survives in name only
Barings, the oldest British banking dynasty; the Rothschilds, who amassed the largest private fortune in modern history; the Warburgs, a German dynasty of Venetian origin dating from the sixteenth century; the venerable Hermann Josef Abs, long-time chairman of Deutsche Bank
Lehman Brothers, formerly the oldest continuing partnership in American investing; and the eccentric and culturally savant financier Raffaele Mattioli, who headed Banca Commerciale Italiana.
About the Author: Czech-American journalist and writer Joseph Wechsberg (1907-83) served for 30 years as the European correspondent for the New Yorker..
A new Foreword has been written specially for this edition by Christopher Kobrak, Wilson/Currie Chair of Canadian Business and Financial History at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Written by a longtime correspondent for the New Yorker, this fascinating account of daring financial adventures and their Merchant banker orchestrators provides a wealth of context for understanding the evolution of modern investment banking.
Focusing on figures of late-nineteenth-century London, this chronicle marks the distinctions between the cloistered Old World aristocracy and the rise of the high-stakes investors of Wall Street.
This fascinating chronicle of the world\'s great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking houses: Hambros, which now survives in name only
Barings, the oldest British banking dynasty; the Rothschilds, who amassed the largest private fortune in modern history; the Warburgs, a German dynasty of Venetian origin dating from the sixteenth century; the venerable Hermann Josef Abs, long-time chairman of Deutsche Bank
Lehman Brothers, formerly the oldest continuing partnership in American investing; and the eccentric and culturally savant financier Raffaele Mattioli, who headed Banca Commerciale Italiana
