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Preface -- I. Are they still there? 1. A procession at Pauillac ; 2. Chutzpah and orchids ; 3. A golden silence -- II. Jew Street. 1. Little orphan Mayer ; 2. A dreamer in the ghetto ; 3. Mayer's serenity ; 4. A dynasty aborning -- III. Five flying carpets. 1. The boys erupt ; 2. Something rotten in Denmark -- IV. Rothschild versus Napoleon. 1. Round one: contraband ; 2. Round two: a million-pound idea ; 3. Round three: the giant gold smuggle ; 4. Round four: the scoop of scoops ; 5. Round five: conquering the victors -- V. The mispoche magnificent. 1. By no other name as great ; 2. The escutcheon ; 3. The five dynasts ; (a) Mr. Nathan ; (b) Beau James ; (c) King Salomon ; (d) Carl, the Mezzuzah Baron ; (e) Amschel of the Flowers -- VI. Running Europe. 1. The peacemongers ; 2. Short-term and long ; 3. The railway madness ; (a) Austria ; (b) France ; 4. Il est mort ; 5. The grandest larceny ever ; 6. Monsters' duel -- VII. The mispoche junior. 1. Inside society ; (a) Anselm ; (b) Lionel and brothers ; (c) Country squires ; 2. Kings of the Jews ; 3. Storming Parliament ; 4. Three suns at noon ; (a) Natty ; (b) Sweet Leo ; (c) The incomparable Alfred -- 5. At Marlborough House. 6. Naughty Bismarck ; 7. The plushiest pilgrim ; 8. Hoffähig -- VIII. No more plumed hats. 1. Two kingdoms resign ; 2. The golden momentum ; 3. The great house and the Great War ; (a) Peacemongers again ; (b) The war ; 4. Aftermath -- IX. Hitler Versus Rothschild. 1. The Depression and Baron Louis ; 2. Windsor at Enzesfeld ; 3. The ides of March ; 4. Hermann Göring says hello ; 5. Heinrich Himmler says hello ; 6. A dynasty enlists ; 7. The palace as souvenir -- X.A dynasty turns jet. 1. Decline and rise ; 2. The mishpoche of the 1960's ; 3. The ladies ; 4. The hush at New Court -- Gallery. |
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A National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling Frederic Morton No family in the past two centuries has been as 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. To this day they remain one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the world. In Frederic Morton's classic tale, the family is finely painted on the page and brought vividly to life. Here you'll meet Mayer, long-time adviser to Germany's princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his. |
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Rothschild family.
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Rothschild family. |
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Bankers -- Europe -- Biography.
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Bankers. |
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Europe. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9781626813946 : $30.00 |
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1626813949 : $30.00 |
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