The House of Rothschild, 9780140286625
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A dynasty’s decline: power, conflict, and a fateful American misstep.

The House of Rothschild

the world's banker 1849-1998

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    576 pages

  • Release Date

    28 September 2000

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Summary

The House of Rothschild: Decline and Fall

This second volume of Niall Ferguson’s acclaimed history concludes his portrait of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty. Ferguson shows how their power waned as conflicts from Crimea to the Second World War repeatedly threatened the stability of their worldwide empire, and how their failure to establish themselves successfully in the United States would prove fateful. At once a classic family saga and a major work of economic, social and…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140286625
ISBN-10:0140286624
Series:The House of Rothschild
Author:Niall Ferguson
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Release Date:28 September 2000
Weight:652g
Dimensions:230mm x 154mm x 32mm
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Critics Review

“A stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination.” -Robert Skidelsky,

“A stupendous achievement, a triumph of historical research and imagination.”—Robert Skidelsky, The New York Review of Books“Niall Ferguson’s brilliant and altogether enthralling two-volume family saga proves that academic historians can still tell great stories that the rest of us want to read.”—The New York Times Book Review“Superb … An impressive … account of the Rothschilds and their role in history.”—Boston Globe

About The Author

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain’s most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

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