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,... This description may be from another edition of this product.
From the back of the book : Shrouded in secrecy, steeped in legend, they are the most fascinating and enigmatic of all aristocracy. The are the merchant bankers - the fabulous financiers whose family decisions have shaped the fates of kings and nations. Now in dramatic and entertaining detail, Joseph Wechsberg explores the realm of the very rich. He describes those financial operations so often speculated about but never revealed and in so doing presents and absorbing inside look at the world's most cloistered elite.
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