"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