The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor - Ron Chernow Audiobook

Written by Ron Chernow
Read by Michael Kramer
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The Death of the Banker
The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor
By: Ron Chernow
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 04-25-17
Language: English
Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Publisher’s Summary
With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to his monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early 20th century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century’s end. As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P. Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to “send your man to my man and they can fix it up”. And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of 20th-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street.

©1997 Ron Chernow (P)2017 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books