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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Schulman, Daniel, author.     Subjects     Businesspeople -- United States.     Investment bankers -- United States.     Immigrants -- Economic aspects.     Finance -- United States.     Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Schulman, Daniel, author.       by title:      The money kings : th...         MARC Display

The money kings : the epic story of the Jewish immigrants who transformed Wall Street and shaped modern America / Daniel Schulman. by Schulman, Daniel, author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023. Subjects Businesspeople -- United States.   Investment bankers -- United States.   Immigrants -- Economic aspects.   Finance -- United States.   Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) ISBN:  9780451493545 (hardcover) : 0451493540 (hardcover) Description:  xviii, 570 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman-who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind was Marcus Goldman, among the "Forty-Eighters" fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers' IOUs to forming the largest investment banks in the world, underwriting businesses like Sears, General Motors, and Macy's that have long defined the face of a nation. In Money Kings, Daniel Schulman follows these dynasties through their earliest gambits; their major business deals and ascent to the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age; the complexities of the Civil War, World War I, and the Zionist movement that tested their fractured identities; and their enduring effect on the many non-German Jewish immigrants who came spilling off steamships in New York Harbor in the early 1900s, including Schulman's grandparents. With the dynamic banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff leading the way, The Money Kings is an engrossing tale about materialism and moralism, family successions and alliances, and the immigrants who dreamed America into being"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 332.0973 Sc item being mended   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 332.0973 Schulman Checked out 05/07/2024 Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult New Books 332.0973 Sc Checked out 05/04/2024 Add Copy to MyList Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 332.0973 Sc Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waipahu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 332.0973 Sc Transit   Add Copy to MyList

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