The Warburgs

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Warburgs
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Ron Chernow
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:880
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 153
ISBN/Barcode 9781786690074
ClassificationsDewey:332.10922
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Head of Zeus
Imprint Head of Zeus
Publication Date 12 July 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A story of brilliant achievement, dazzling personalities and human frailty set against the dark background of European racism and paranoia. The Warburgs were bankers, patrons of the arts, scholars, socialites, philanthropists and politicians. This Jewish family from Westphalia became a German success story, and embraced German culture with a passion: they loved the art, music and literature of their country and never wavered from their patriotic identification with their homeland. They advised a German Kaiser; their American cousins advised two presidents. Their investment bank still exists and is one of the oldest in the world. The Warburgs endowed libraries, built mansions and collected paintings. But in 1933 the family became a prime target of the Nazis and the world they knew came crashing down.

Author Biography

Ron Chernow is the author of Alexander Hamilton, which has sold over 1.5 million copies and inspired the musical Hamilton, and of Grant, a life of the great Civil War general and US President. A graduate of Yale and Cambridge, Chernow's Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer prize in 2011.

Reviews

Excellent family history... A great, and lengthy, saga' * The Times * Splendid... Chernow does a wonderful job fleshing out the lives in this family drama' * Wall Street Journal * Excellent... An enthralling story, told with a novelist's zest' * New York Times *