Title: The death of the banker
First published: 1997
Description: Ron Chernow examines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, the Warburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the early twentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by the century's end.

As he traces the shifting balance of power among investors, borrowers, and bankers, Chernow evokes both the grand theater of capital and the personal dramas of its most fascinating protagonists. Here is Siegmund Warburg, who dropped a client in the heat of a takeover deal because the man wore monogrammed shirt cuffs, as well as the imperious J. P.

Morgan, who, when faced with a federal antitrust suit, admonished Theodore Roosevelt to "send your man to my man and they can fix it up." And here are the men who usurped their power, from the go-getters of the 1920s to the masters of the universe of the 1980s. Glittering with perception and anecdote, The Death of the Banker is at once a panorama of twentieth-century finance and a guide to the new era of giant mutual funds on Wall Street.
Subjects: Bankers, Banks and banking, Finance, Personal, History, Personal Finance, Trust companies, Banken (financiële instellingen), Gro bank, Geschichte 1800-1997, Banks and banking, history
Places: United States
People: J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), Warburg family, John Pierpont (der Ältere) Morgan, Warburg (Familie)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: HG2481 .C42 1997