The Warburgs The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

A twentieth-century epic [told] with authority, sympathy, and panache. . . . Important, fascinating, and moving. The Washington Post Book World

Excellent. . . . An enthralling story, told with a novelist s zest. The New York Times Book Review

Splendid. . . . Chernow does a wonderful job fleshing out the lives of the major characters in this family drama. The Wall Street Journal
 
[Ron Chernow] has surpassed himself in this absorbing chronicle. The New Yorker
 
This is grand-scale scholarship. . . . It is all here, along with so much of the painful, tumultuous history of our time, all in one splendid book. David McCullough, author of The Wright Brothers

Ron Chernow s blockbuster history traces the heart-rending saga of this German-Jewish banking family. . . . Despite his scrupulous documentation of sources, Chernow is never less than readable. A graceful and lucid writer, he offers old-fashioned narrative in the grand style. Newsday

The history of a fascinating family. . . . What we learn about in this book is people. . . . Chernow is very good at bringing them to life. He has a sharp eye for detail. . . . One can open the book anywhere and enjoy it. The New Republic

Ron Chernow . . . has made the stories of these four brothers the cornerstones of a dark, though not quite tragic, family saga. [He is] a graceful writer with an eye for the telling anecdote. . . . The result is a book of considerable pathos and immediacy. . . . Through his portrait of this complex dynastic organism, he sheds interesting light on various larger historical themes. The Boston Globe

Excellent family history. . . . This chronicle of one of the most important banking families in history tells us much about the people. . . . A great, and lengthy, saga. The Times (London)

The Warburgs stand revealed as a family more fortune-kissed, fated and fascinating even than the Kennedys, and . . . just as important . . . and now their story has been ably told. The New York Daily News