Chernow, Ron, 1949-

The death of the banker : the decline and fall of the great financial dynasties and the triumph of the small investor / by Ron Chernow. - 1st ed. - New York : Vintage Books, c1997. - xiv, 130 pages ; 21 cm.

"A Vintage original."

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


0375700374 (alk. paper)

97016318


Morgan, J. Pierpont 1837-1913.
Warburg family.


Banks and banking--History--United States--20th century.
Trust companies--History--United States--20th century.
Finance, Personal--United States.
Bankers--United States.

HG2481 / .C42 1997

332.1/0973