Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of…
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Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
A sweeping history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman, exploring its central role in the story of American wealth and its rise to global powerConspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. By the turn of the twentieth century, Brown Brothers was unquestionably at the heart of the American Establishment. Throughout the nineteenth century, when America was convulsed by a financial panic essentially every twenty years, Brown Brothers quietly went from strength to strength.
To the Brown family, the virtue of their dealings was a given; their form of muscular Protestantism, forged on the As America's reach extended, Brown Brothers worked hand in glove with the State Department, notably in Nicaragua in the early twentieth century, where the firm essentially took over the country's economy.