{"product_id":"9780486796710","title":"The Merchant Bankers","description":"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, the oldest British banking dynasty; the Rothschilds, who amassed the largest private fortune in modern history; the Warburgs, a German dynasty of Venetian origin dating from the sixteenth century; the venerable Hermann Josef Abs, long-time chairman of Deutsche Bank; Lehman Brothers, formerly the oldest continuing partnership in American investing; and the eccentric and culturally savant financier Raffaele Mattioli, who headed Banca Commerciale Italiana. \u003cbr\u003eFocusing on figures of late-nineteenth-century London, this chronicle marks the distinctions between the cloistered Old World aristocracy and the rise of the high-stakes investors of Wall Street. Written by a longtime correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003ethis fascinating account of daring financial adventures and their merchant banker orchestrators provides a wealth of context for understanding the evolution of modern investment banking. A new Foreword has been written specially for this edition by Christopher Kobrak, Wilson\/Currie Chair of Canadian Business and Financial History at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122121621744,"sku":"9780486796710","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780486796710_p0.jpg?v=1763708880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780486796710","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}