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Product Identifiers
PublisherKodansha America, Incorporated
ISBN-10156836220X
ISBN-139781568362205
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038435311
Product Key Features
Book TitleRothschilds : Portrait of a Dynasty
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1998
TopicRich & Famous, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorFrederic Morton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight16.6 Oz
Item Length5.6 in
Item Width8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-014815
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"Hardly a page without sparkle. Morton writes a chromium-plate style...[he]enables the reader to grasp some of the fundamental secrets of the Rothschild success-above all, its endurance." -New York Herald Tribune Books
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal332.1/092/2
SynopsisA classic biography of a family at the center of some of the most crucial moments in history. "Enables the reader to grasp some of the fundamental secrets of the Rothschilds' success." - New York Herald Tribune, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE Long regarded as the most magical of the European dynasties, the Rothschild family today remains one of the most powerful and wealthy in the world. No family in the past two centuries has been so constantly at the center of Europe's great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is brought vividly to life. Here you'll meet characters as lively as you can imagine: Mayer, long-time advisor to Germany's princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his family on the road to wealth and power; Lord Alfred, who maintained a private train, private orchestra (which he conducted), and private circus (of which he was ringmaster); Baron Philippe, whose rarefied vintages bear labels created by great artists, among them Picasso, Dali, and Haring; and Kathleen Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the "jazz baroness," in whose arms Charlie Parker died. The family itself has been at the center of some of the most crucial moments in history: the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, the development of the Suez Canal, the introduction of Jews in the House of Lords. Through it all, the Rothschild name has continued to represent the family ideal: a shrewd business and financial sense, activity in the Jewish community and the arts, and an always luxurious-and often eccentric-lifestyle. Nominated for a National Book Award when it was first published in 1962, Frederic Morton's The Rothschllds is here reissued with a new afterword by the author, bringing the tale of this extraordinary family to the present.
LC Classification NumberHG1552.R8M6 1998
