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                    Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag
                  
                  
                    
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                      Jul 17, 2023
                    
                  
                
                
              What books should I read for extensive history about real merchant banks like Lazard, Allen Co, Rothschild?
I’d like to read as much history of true merchant banks as possible. There seems to be almost no good material on them (or the concept)
                  
                    Conor Maguire | Value Situations @ValueSituations
                  
                  
                    
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                      Jul 17, 2023
                    
                  
                
                
              Hi Patrick, I would recommend Niall Ferguson’s 2-part The House of Rothschild & William Cohan’s The Last Tycoons (history of Lazard Frères); High Financier (about life of Sigmund Warburg) also by Niall Ferguson is worth reading too
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