Gold and Iron
Language: English
Published: Oct 15, 2018
Goodreads Avg:
4.03
Pages:
672
Goodreads Ratings Count:
164
Description:
Winner of the Lionel Trilling AwardNominated for the National Book Award
This is a book about Germans and Jews, about power and money. It is a book focused on Bismarck and Bleichröder, Junker and Jew, statesman and banker, collaborators for over thirty years. The setting is that of a Germany where two worlds clashed: the new world of capitalism and an earlier world with its ancient feudal ethos; gradually a new and broadened elite emerged, and Bismarck's tie with Bleichröder epitomized that regrouping. (From the Introduction.)