A National Book Award Finalist from the bestselling Frederic Morton No family in the past two centuries has been as constantly at the center of Europes great events, has featured such varied and spectacular personalities, has had anything close to the wealth of the Rothschilds. To this day they remain one of the most powerful and wealthy families in the world. In Frederic Mortons classic tale, the family is finely painted on the page and brought vividly to life. Here youll meet Mayer, long-time adviser to Germanys princes, who broke through the barriers of a Frankfurt ghetto and placed his family on the road to wealth and power Lord Alfred, who maintained a private train, private orchestra which he conducted, and private circus of which he was ringmaster Baron Philippe, whose rarefied vintages bear labels that were created by great artists, among them Picasso, Dali, and Haring and Kathleen Nica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the jazz baroness, in whose arms Charlie Parker died.
