Ron Chernow, The Warburgs, Signed, 1st ed

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With The Warburgs, Ron Chernow brings us a remarkable family of bankers, philanthropists, 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.

Some minor cocking to front cover, else, very good+; in Brodart cover. 

Chennow, Ron. THE WARBURGS: THE 20TH CENTURY ODYSSEY OF A REMARKABLE JEWISH FAMILY. NY: Random House, 1993. 1st ed., 820p., photos, bibliography, notes, index.