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DEATH OF THE BANKER Pb - 1997 - 1st Edition
by CHERNOW,R
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- Title DEATH OF THE BANKER
- Author CHERNOW,R
- Binding pb
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Fair
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1997-07-14
- Bookseller's Inventory # 9780375700378.u2
- ISBN 9780375700378 / 0375700374
- Weight 0.33 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.44 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.12 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Finance, Personal - United States, Morgan, J. Pierpont
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97016318
- Dewey Decimal Code 332.109
From the jacket flap
"For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page headlines, this is the book to read." --Publishers Weekly
With the same breadth of vision and narrative elan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end.
As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P. Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of twentieth-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street.
"Chernow . . . delivers a sound, accessible account of the forces shaping capital, credit, currency, and securities markets on the eve of a new millennium."
--Kirkus Reviews
With the same breadth of vision and narrative elan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end.
As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P. Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of twentieth-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street.
"Chernow . . . delivers a sound, accessible account of the forces shaping capital, credit, currency, and securities markets on the eve of a new millennium."
--Kirkus Reviews
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/1997, Page 768
- Library Journal, 06/01/1997, Page 108
- New York Times, 07/20/1997, Page 15
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1997, Page 68
- Publishers Weekly, 05/12/1997, Page 64
