03450cam a2200505 i 4500 23099499 BJBSDDR 20250528153116.0 ta 230501s2024 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 2023004044 9781101973011 (paperback) 1101973013 (paperback) 9780451493552 (ebook) DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc n-us--- n-us-ny HB 615 S386m 2024 332.0973 Schulman, Daniel H., 1958- 41382 The money kings : the epic story of the Jewish immigrants who transformed Wall Street and shaped modern America / Daniel Schulman. First Vintage Books edition New York : Vintage Books, 2024 xviii, 568 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-537) and index. "The saga of the German-Jewish immigrants-with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Lehman and Seligman-who built the modern American finance system and shaped the world economy, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sons of Wichita. Joseph Seligman arrived in the United States in 1837, with the equivalent of $100 sewn into the lining of his pants. Then came Henry and Emanuel Lehman, who would open a general store in Montgomery, Alabama. Not far behind was Marcus Goldman, among the "Forty-Eighters" fleeing a Germany that had relegated Jews to an underclass. These industrious immigrants would soon go from peddling trinkets and buying up shopkeepers' IOUs to forming the largest investment banks in the world, underwriting businesses like Sears, General Motors, and Macy's that have long defined the face of a nation. In Money Kings, Daniel Schulman follows these dynasties through their earliest gambits; their major business deals and ascent to the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age; the complexities of the Civil War, World War I, and the Zionist movement that tested their fractured identities; and their enduring effect on the many non-German Jewish immigrants who came spilling off steamships in New York Harbor in the early 1900s, including Schulman's grandparents. With the dynamic banker and philanthropist Jacob Schiff leading the way, The Money Kings is an engrossing tale about materialism and moralism, family successions and alliances, and the immigrants who dreamed America into being"-- Provided by publisher. Businesspeople United States. Empresarios Estados Unidos 6840 Investment bankers United States. Banqueros Estados Unidos 4537 Immigrants Economic aspects. Inmigrantes Aspectos económicos 42356 Finance United States. Finanzas Estados Unidos 155 Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) Wall Street (Nueva York, N.Y.) 33984 Online version: Schulman, Daniel. Money kings New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780451493552 (DLC) 2023004045 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 123088 123088 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-03-27 0 HB 615 S386m 2024 00000189994 2025-03-27 00:00:00 1 2025-03-27 BK