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Niall Ferguson

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FERGUSON

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Money

is

the

god

Rothschild

ofi

his pr^lfet.''

is

—Heinrich Heine

THE MYTHOLOGY Rothschilds'

Now

weaUh and power is two

centuries old.

the historical reality, long buried in the bank s

archives, torian

is

revealed for the

first

and bestselling author

time by Oxford his-

Niall

definitive account of a legendary rise to

The

surrounding the

Ferguson

in this

banking dynasty's

power.

first

scholar with unrestricted access to the

more than twenty sur\iving Rothschild archivesincluding documents hidden for half a century in the

KGB's special archive— Ferguson has synthesized material from tens of thousands of letters, including

many

in hitherto

untranslated Judendeutsch. to

produce a rich and nuanced portrait of this fascinating, secretive family.

The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the

In

how

Rothschilds' phenomenal economic success:

they created and dominated the tional

modern

bond market and pioneered the

interna-

art of high-

speed communication. Ferguson reveals for the

first

time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and infiuence over

many

of the greatest statesmen of the age, including

Wellington, Metternich, Disraeli,

and Bismarck.

cial force

was such

Queen -Their

that

Victoria, Gladstone,

dominance as a

few governments resisted

turning to the family in times of crisis. "There

one power

in

Europe,

"

Rothschild."

finan-

it

was

said,

is

but

"and that

is

^i^^

Not only the history of a preeminent bank. The

House of Rothschild is also a fai^gMJ^Ferguson deftly analyzes and documents q^^^^W impor-

(contiuued ou back flap)

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