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...family's story is handsomely told in The House of Rothschild: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848 (Viking; 648 pages; $34.95), the first volume of a chronicle by Oxford historian Niall Ferguson. The second volume is scheduled for next year...
...Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen for the post of Secretary at the Admiralty. And so on. In the Rothschilds, Ferguson finds enough great material for a dozen mini-series...
...Ferguson has had access to all the surviving Rothschild archives, including the family's vast private correspondence, which fills 135 boxes. He sorts through the intricacies of their business deals: financing governments, bill brokering, working the international bullion market, trading in American cotton and tobacco, Spanish mercury and Russian copper. The legerdemain of speculative finance in another century is sometimes occult material, but Ferguson manages it well...
Author Stephen Covey, cited in Andrew Ferguson's "Goodbye, Brave Newtworld" [ESSAY, Nov. 16], is on to us. Management consultants will suffer from the Gingrich fallout now that Newt's "thinking" has been compared with the "banalities...broken down and presented as 'steps' and 'affirmations'" in Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. For years, management mavens have been getting away with best sellers, that, like most of us passing through airport customs, have nothing to declare. Fortunately for the authors, few of their readers have ever read my 1984 article in International Management, "Sifting the Nonsense...
...offering, "Tales of Ovid," won the Whitbread Book of the Year award -? a top literary prize -? for what the judges called its "greatness and sublimity." He brought an uncompromising perspective to the laureate role, too. For example, his 1986 poem in praise of Prince Andrew?s wedding to Sarah Ferguson raised eyebrows for focusing on details like the Coke cans that were left lying in the streets...