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Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power

Maybe someday

40

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

63/100

Critics

17/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Zachary Karabell

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Date:

May 18, 2021

A history of the private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global power.

What The Reviewers Say

Roger Lowenstein,
The New York Times
A history of a private Wall Street partnership.
Robert Armstrong,
Financial Times (UK)
An engaging history of the bank and its place in American financial history.

Kirkus
Historian Karabell examines the long history of a financial services firm that exercised outsize power in the political sphere.