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The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

Penguin Group (USA), 2011 更多详情

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Editorial Rating

8

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  • Engaging
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This panoramic biography of Siegmund Warburg reveals a complex man who built international banking in response to the great turbulence of the 20th century. Given access to previously unavailable personal letters and diaries, Niall Ferguson, a history professor at Harvard, spent 12 years profiling this singular man, who was shaped by early-20th-century Prussian Europe and lived through World War I, the rise of Nazism, the dark years of the Holocaust and post-World War II reconstruction. The book’s title aptly describes Warburg’s “lives,” since he reinvented himself in the face of world and personal events. Ferguson artfully weaves Warburg’s motives, business environment and family intrigues into the political evolution of Western Europe and the US. getAbstract highly recommends this detailed, readable biography of an extraordinary man.

Take-Aways

  • Siegmund Warburg (1902-1982) was born in Hamburg, Germany, into a wealthy family that could trace its lineage to the 17th century.
  • The Warburgs structured their family banking empire much like the Rothschild dynasty.
  • Warburg wrote that post-World War I events created “the First World Revolution,” which fueled the demise of European empires and the rise of Russian Bolshevism.

About the Author

Niall Ferguson teaches history at Harvard University and wrote Empire, The Cash Nexus, The Ascent of Money and several other books.


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