The Death of the Banker
the decline and fall of the great financial dynasties and the triumph of the small investor
$40.58
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 July 1997
Summary
The Fall of Finance: A Chronicle of Banking Dynasties
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 élan 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375700378 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375700374 |
| Series: | Vintage |
| Author: | Ron Chernow |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 14 July 1997 |
| Weight: | 125g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 132mm x 9mm |
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About The Author
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow’s bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center, has received six honorary doctoral degrees, and was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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