The World's Banker
The World’s Banker is the first complete history of the Rothschild banking dynasty with full access to worldwide archives. It is no exaggeration to say that the Rothschilds become one of the living legends of the 19th century: the personification of a new era in which money determined status and power. Using a wealth of archival sources as well as a vast amount of little known contemporary, this definitive study promises not only to do justice to the history of Rothschilds, but to revolutionize the history of the years of their rise and preeminence, and to reveal fascinating continuities from the 19th century to our own time.
Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success.
He reveals for the first time the details of the family’s vast political network.
“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