High Financier: The Lives and Times of Siemund Warburg

Bestselling author Niall Ferguson reveals for the first time the true extent of Siegmund Warburg’s influence-and the lessons we can learn in a time of crisis from the last of the high financiers. “Success from the financial and from the prestige point of view . . . is not enough; what matters even more is . . . adherence to high moral and aesthetic standards.” -Siegmund Warburg, 1959 In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than ten thousand hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Niall Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of Siegmund Warburg, an extraordinary man whose austere philosophy of finance offers much insight today. A refugee from Hitler’s Germany, Warburg rose to become the dominant figure in postwar City of London and one of the architects of European financial integration.