Dynasties: Fortune and Misfortune in the World's Great Family Businesses

by David Landes

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Rothschilds • Morgans • Fords • Toyoda • Agnellis • Rockefellers • Guggenheims

Dynastic family businesses have everything: extraordinary success, bizarre eccentricity, bitter rivalry – as well as pots of money and power. Yet almost no one has looked closely enough to see what it is that really makes them tick.

In Dynasties, award-winning author David Landes casts his eye over some of the most powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America. On the way, he provides thrilling histories of the characters who have made their mark on the world and passed on a legacy – sometimes benign and sometimes not – to their descendants.
  • ISBN10 0140281886
  • ISBN13 9780140281880
  • Publish Date 31 January 2008 (first published 25 January 2007)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 29 July 2008
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 400
  • Language English