Book Talk & Signing with Daniel Schulman: Jewish Immigrants who Transformed Wall Street

Join the museum for a book talk and signing with author Daniel Schulman. Learn about the incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance and shaped modern America.

The Money Kings (Knopf, November 14, 2023) unspools a sweeping narrative that traces the interconnected origin stories of these financial dynasties. Schulman chronicles their paths to Wall Street dominance, as they navigated the deeply antisemitic upper class of the Gilded Age, and the complexities of the Civil War, World War I, and the Zionist movement that tested both their burgeoning empires and their identities as Americans, Germans, and Jews.

About the Author: Daniel Schulman is The New York Times best-selling author of Sons of Wichita, a biography of the Koch family that was a finalist for the 2014 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The deputy Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, he lives in Massachusetts, with his wife and sons.