The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Chernow, Ron

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525431831)

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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Chernow, Ron

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

$21.00
The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Chernow, Ron

The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biography of the Warburgs, one of the great German-Jewish banking families of the twentieth century.

Bankers, philanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism, and their sense of patriotism became increasingly dangerous in a Germany that had declared Jews the enemy.

Ron Chernow's hugely fascinating history is a group portrait of a clan whose members were renowned for their brilliance, culture, and personal energy yet tragically vulnerable to the dark and irrational currents of the twentieth century.

Author: Ron Chernow
ISBN-10: 0525431837
ISBN-13: 9780525431831
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2016
Pages: 880
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.80d
By Ron Chernow
By Ron Chernow
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Ron Chernow's bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center and has received seven honorary doctoral degrees. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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