Financier: The Biography Of Andre Meyer

Financier is the biography of André Meyer, a French- Jewish banker who had to start from scratch in America after fleeing the Nazis. He accumulated a vast fortune, built or resuscitated such corporate giants as Avis and Holiday Inns, advised the Kennedys, William Paley, Katherine Graham and Lyndon Johnson, was a confidant of Jackie Onassis, and virtually created the era of the merger. Financier is a saga of post-World War II business and finance-the inside story of huge corporations and enormous profits and how they were made.