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.