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Title: The Death of the Banker: The Decline and Fall of the Great Financial Dynasties and the Triumph of the Small Investor by Ron Chernow ISBN: 0-375-70037-4 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Death of the Banker
Comment: Chernow, author of The Warburgs and the National Book Award-winning The House of Morgan, strays somewhat from his trademark biographies in this trio of essays. True, two essays, "J. Pierpont Morgan" and "The Warburgs," revisit past scholarship, but both are in the service of his reprinted lecture, "The Death of the Banker." Even in such a brief volume, Chernow manages to reveal much about the personalities of the Rothschilds, the Morgans and others and to offer telling, entertaining anecdotes. For example, Chernow tracks the origins of the "cold call" to a broker in the 1920s who "telephoned one number and was told the party he was trying to reach was dead. Without missing a beat, the young broker asked, `Well, can I please speak to his next of kin?'" This is the background that allows Chernow to chronicle the dramatic shifts in the banking and brokerage community over the past century. There is no longer a clear demarcation between a banker and a brokerage'as evidenced by this year's merger of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter. Furthermore, Chernow says the old antagonism between Wall Street execs and plain folks no longer really applies: "Main Street can no longer clash too vigorously with Wall Street since the two sides have grown indistinguishable from the rise of giant brokerage chains and mutual fund groups." For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page headlines, this is the book to read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!
Comment: Brief, to the point and informative. A great anthology of how the financial world got from where it was to where it is now. Chernow is a master financial historian.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice little introduction to the history of banking in the US
Comment: I was disappointed with Chernow's tome on the Morgans, partly because, as he states in this book, it lacked thematic content. I don't think Chernow is right about banking and finance generally becoming 'democratised', even if it is changing. Global finance is still controlled by a very few fund managers and bankers, albeit with an eye to the profit margin. It may be the populace's money, but they do not decide how it gets used, and this is the crucial power in our time. Nevertheless, this is a good introduction to the subject and always readable.
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Title: The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow ISBN: 0802138292 Publisher: Publishers Group West Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow ISBN: 0679743596 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson ISBN: 0140240845 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow ISBN: 0679757031 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson ISBN: 0140286624 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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