Title from container. Read by Edoardo Ballerini. Compact discs. Supplemental enhancement PDF included.
Summary:
After leaving his native Bavaria, Henry Lehman arrives in America determined to make a better life. Sensing opportunity in the Deep South, he opens a textile shop in Alabama, laying the foundation for a dynasty that will come to dominate and define modern capitalism. Emanuel and his brother Mayer begin investing in anything and everything that will turn a profit, from cotton to coal to railroads to oil to airplanes, even at the expense of the very nation that forged them. Spanning three generations and 150 years, a moving epic that dares to tell the story of modern capitalism through the saga of the Lehman brothers and their descendants.
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