Joseph Wechsberg Libros

Joseph abandona Checoslovaquia a mediados de los años veinte con un violín bajo el brazo y la firme intención de conocer mundo. Sus pasos pronto lo conducirán desde los viejos cafés del París de la bohemia a surcar los océanos como segundo violín a bordo de los vapores que recorren las grandes rutas hacia América, China, Japón o Yibuti. En sus viajes, el joven violinista irá sumando experiencias y componiendo una nostálgica imagen de la vida durante el primer tercio del siglo veinte. Salpicado por una multitud de peculiares personajes: un lavandero chino aficionado a la fotografía, noctámbulos músicos franceses, femmes fatales y sedientos empresarios neoyorquinos de los años de la ley seca, Buscando un pájaro azul abre una ventana a una efímera y despreocupada era, la del jazz, los salones de baile y el primer turismo transoceánico, que floreció entre las dos grandes guerras.

This fascinating chronicle of the world's great financial families offers candid profiles of the personalities behind seven legendary banking houses: Hambros, which now survives in name only; Barings, the oldest British banking dynasty; the Rothschilds, who amassed the largest private fortune in modern history; the Warburgs, a German dynasty of Venetian origin dating from the sixteenth century; the venerable Hermann Josef Abs, long-time chairman of Deutsche Bank; Lehman Brothers, formerly the oldest continuing partnership in American investing; and the eccentric and culturally savant financier Raffaele Mattioli, who headed Banca Commerciale Italiana. Focusing on figures of late-nineteenth-century London, this chronicle marks the distinctions between the cloistered Old World aristocracy and the rise of the high-stakes investors of Wall Street. Written by a longtime correspondent for the New Yorker, this fascinating account of daring financial adventures and their merchant banker orchestrators provides a wealth of context for understanding the evolution of modern investment banking. A new Foreword has been written specially for this edition by Christopher Kobrak, Wilson/Currie Chair of Canadian Business and Financial History at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

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Relates the circumstances of a deadly avalanche in Blons, Austria, in 1954.