High financier - Niall Ferguson

This
is the extraordinary story of Siegmund Warburg: the refugee from Nazi
Germany who restored the Blitz-shattered City of London as the world's
preeminent international financial centre. In recounting how this
brilliant, scholarly man brought wit, passion and, above all, high
ethical standards to the world of finance, Niall Ferguson shows how his
meticulous methods were the antithesis of the debt-fuelled, speculative
banking of our times.

'A fascinating portrait ... Beautifully paced, dramatically subtle
and psychologically shrewd ... Warburg is an emblem of money as it ought
to be, and now isn't'
Bryan Appleyard, New Statesman

'Extensively researched and beautifully written'
Peter Stormonth Darling, Spectator

'Ferguson's
account of Warburg's life not only reveals a prophet of European
unification and, later, globalization, but a banker from a more
responsible (and civilised) era'
Peter Mandelson, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year

'A timely, original and engaging biography'
Sathnam Sanghera, The Times

'Financially
literate, extremely thorough, deploying dazzling breadth of cultural
reference ...
Ferguson has produced a fine historical biography. He has
also reminded us, regrettably, that Warburg has no peer in the
financial world today'
Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday