{"product_id":"the-money-kings-9780451493545","title":"The Money Kings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice • The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance (and so much more), from the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eSons of Wichita\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came the Lehman brothers, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind were Solomon Loeb and Marcus Goldman, among the “Forty-Eighters” fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers’ IOUs to forming what would become some of the largest investment banks in the world—Goldman Sachs, Kuhn Loeb, Lehman Brothers, J. \u0026amp; W. S","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864615956823,"sku":"9780451493545","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780451493545.jpg?v=1722272735","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-money-kings-9780451493545","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}