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　　Ron Chernow, the National Book Award-winning author of two astoundingly comprehensive biographies of prominent American financiers, now examines the ultimate decline of such power brokers and the corresponding rise of international money in The Death of the Banker. This surprisingly concise (but no less illuminating) volume opens with an expanded version of a speech on "the dwindling role of the financial intermediary" that he presented early in 1997; it concludes with condensed versions of his earlier books on J. P. Morgan and the Warburgs that show how the essence of financial power has changed in the 20th century.

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　　For anyone interested in the world behind the business-pageheadlines, this is the book to read. --Publishers Weekly
　　With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought tohis monumental biographies of the great financiers, Ron Chernowexamines the forces that made dynasties like the Morgans, theWarburgs, and the Rothschilds the financial arbiters of the earlytwentieth century and then rendered them virtually obsolete by thecentury's end.

For anyone interested in the world behind the business-page
headlines, this is the book to read. --Publishers Weekly 
　　With the same breadth of vision and narrative élan he brought to
his monumental biographies of the great financiers, 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. 
　　"Chernow . . . delivers a sound, accessible account of the forces
shaping capital, credit, currency, and securities markets on the
eve of a new millennium. " 
　　--Kirkus Reviews

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　　Some fastidious fans will inevitably call it "Financial History for Dummies" or "Chernow Lite." But I call it a delight--an intimate chat with a writer so thoughtful and well informed about his topic that one closes the book feeling far more worldly and intelligent than when one opened it. -- The New York Times Book Review, Diana B. Henriques

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