Book Breaks with Daniel Schulman on The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America

 

Date & Time:  May 4, 2025, 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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Against the backdrop of America’s transformation from a debtor nation into a financial superpower, journalist Daniel Schulman explores the interconnected origin stories of Jacob Schiff and generations of the Goldman, Sachs, Guggenheim, and Lehman families. In the process, Schulman shows how Jewish immigrants harnessed American industry and underwrote some of the twentieth century’s quintessential companies.

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