2/22/2000
To understand how massive the Rothschild enterprise was, writes Ferguson, "one has to imagine a merger between Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and probably Goldman Sachs too — as well, perhaps, as the International Monetary Fund…." This meticulously researched work, the second in a two-volume history, picks up in the middle of the 19th century to tell the story of this remarkable family, its financial empire and their impact on world economic, social and political history over the past 150 years.
to come