The Warburgs: the Twentieth-century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family - Hardcover

The National Book Award-winning author of The House of Morgan tells the haunting tale of the most powerful Jewish banking dynasty in German and American history. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

lanthropists, scholars, socialites, artists, and politicians, the Warburgs stood at the pinnacle of German (and, later, of German-American) Jewry. They forged economic dynasties, built mansions and estates, assembled libraries, endowed charities, and advised a German kaiser and two American presidents. But their very success made the Warburgs lightning rods for anti-Semitism, and their sense of patriotism became increasingly dangerous in a Germany that had declared Jews the enemy.

Ron Chernow's hugely fascinating history is a group portrait of a clan whose members were renowned for their brilliance, culture, and personal energy yet tragically vulnerable to the dark and irrational currents of the twentieth century.
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