The Warburgs
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The Warburgs
| Full title | The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family |
|---|---|
| Author | Ron Chernow |
| Published | 1993 |
| Pages | 820 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Chernow follows five generations of a German-Jewish banking family whose members ended up on opposite sides of the century — Max running M. M. Warburg in Hamburg until 1938, Paul helping design the Federal Reserve, Aby leaving the bank for art history. A study of assimilation, and of a family business where the political environment, not the balance sheet, decided the outcome. |
The Warburgs
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, the Himalaya Capital bibliography, under Biography and Others, a section that reads institutions through the people who built them.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Ron Chernow — the author; The House of Morgan and Titan are already carded.
- Banking — the family business, across two financial systems.
- World War II — the event that ends the German half of the story.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.