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High Financier

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141975849

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • RRP: £17.99

High Financier

  • The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg

In this groundbreaking biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of the extraordinary Siegmund Warburg.

A refugee from Hitler's Germany, Warburg rose to become the dominant figure in the post-war City of London and one of the architects of European financial integration. Seared by events in the 1930s, when the long-established Warburg bank was first almost destroyed by the Depression and then 'Aryanized' by the Nazis, Warburg was determined that his own bank would learn from the past and contribute to the economic recovery of Britain, the unity of Western Europe and the birth of globalization.

Siegmund Warburg was a complex and ambivalent man, as much a psychologist, politician and actor-manager as a banker. In High Financier Niall Ferguson reveals Warburg's idiosyncracies but above all he recaptures the meticulous business methods and strict ethical code that set Warburg apart from the mere speculators and traders who inhabit today's financial world.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141975849

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • RRP: £17.99

Reviews

  • Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle and psychologically shrewd, this is Ferguson at his finest

    Peter Stormonth Darling, Spectator

  • Ferguson is a talented writer, capable of grace and insight, but it is his ability as a historian that shows most strongly in High Financier

    T. J. Stiles, The Washington Post Sunday

  • Its many finance lessons aside, High Financier is a pleasure to read simply as a work of literary skill. It is not only prodigiously researched but also splendidly written-clear and vivid and precise, perhaps even of enough merit to satisfy a word-stickler like Siegmund Warburg

    Wall Street Journal

  • A timely, original and engaging biography of Siegmund Warburg

    Sathnam Sanghera, The Times

  • This book is both a notable contribution to economic history and a fascinating portrait

    Geoffrey Owen, Telegraph

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About the Author

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is one of Britain's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, and a visiting professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, Empire, Civilization and Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Prize. He is an award-making filmmaker, too, having won an international Emmy for his PBS series The Ascent of Money. His many other prizes include the Benjamin Franklin Prize for Public Service (2010), the Hayek Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2012) and the Ludwig Erhard Prize for Economic Journalism (2013). He writes a weekly column for the Sunday Times, for which he was named Columnist of the Year at the 2018 British Press Awards.

Niall Ferguson

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