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Overview'Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd, this is Ferguson at his finest' Peter Stormonth Darling, Spectator In this groundbreaking biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of the extraordinary Siegmund Warburg. A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Warburg rose to become the dominant figure in the post-war City of London and one of the architects of European financial integration. Seared by events in the 1930s, when the long-established Warburg bank was first almost destroyed by the Depression and then 'Aryanized' by the Nazis, Warburg was determined that his own bank would learn from the past and contribute to the economic recovery of Britain, the unity of Western Europe and the birth of globalization. Siegmund Warburg was a complex and ambivalent man, as much a psychologist, politician and actor-manager as a banker. In High Financier Niall Ferguson reveals Warburg's idiosyncracies but above all he recaptures the meticulous business methods and strict ethical code that set Warburg apart from the mere speculators and traders who inhabit today's financial world. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Niall FergusonPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780141022017ISBN 10: 0141022019 Pages: 592 Publication Date: 01 September 2011 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsBeautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd, this is Ferguson at his finest -- Peter Stormonth Darling * Spectator * Ferguson is a talented writer, capable of grace and insight, but it is his ability as a historian that shows most strongly in High Financier -- T. J. Stiles * The Washington Post Sunday * Its many finance lessons aside, High Financier is a pleasure to read simply as a work of literary skill. It is not only prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise, perhaps even of enough merit to satisfy a word-stickler like Siegmund Warburg * Wall Street Journal * A timely, original and engaging biography of Siegmund Warburg -- Sathnam Sanghera * The Times * This book is both a notable contribution to economic history and a fascinating portrait -- Geoffrey Owen * Telegraph * Niall Ferguson has written a timely, original and engaging biography of Siegmund Warburg. -- Sathnam Sanghera The Times This book is both a notable contribution to economic history and a fascinating portrait. -- Geoffrey Owen Telegraph Author InformationNiall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968- The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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