The House of Rothschild, Vol. 1

by Niall Ferguson

1998 · 596 pages

bankers
banks and banking
biography
biography & autobiography
business
businesspeople

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About this book

This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced the Rothschild's ascent, Ferguson shows how their power waned as conflicts from Crimea to the Second World War repeatedly threatened the stability of their worldwide empire, and how their failure to establish themselves successfully in the United States would prove fateful. At once a classic family saga and a major work of economic, social and political history, this is the definitive biography of some of the most powerful financiers of recent times.

Quotes by Niall Ferguson

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The First World War was at once piteous, in the poet's sense, and 'a pity'. It was something worse than a tragedy, which is ultimately something we are taught by the theatre to regard as unavoidable. It was nothing less than the greatest error of modern history.
Even small numbers of evangelical missionaries can achieve a good deal, furnished as they are with substantial funds from congregations at home.
The difficulty with the achievements of the empire is that they are much more likely to be taken for granted than the sins of the empire.