The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Joseph Sassoon
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Pan
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Joseph Sassoon
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
The rise and fall of the Sassoon family, who, at their height, traded in opium, tea, silk and jewels, is charted in delectable detail in The Sassoons.
A revelatory rise-and-fall narrative of a secretive clan who pursued wealth but mostly shunned fame and power.
An exhaustive tome.
It is the Sassoons’ fall from fortune that gives this somewhat dry family history its emotional heart and narrative pace.
[A] scholarly and wide-ranging corporate and family history, which deftly charts their exploitation of the British Empire, before the sticky embrace of the English aristocracy suffocated their commercial ambition.
Engrossing.
The Sassoon family tree is complicated, and keeping characters straight throughout the narrative can be daunting, particularly since the family repeated names constantly. Luckily, the author helpfully provides a detailed genealogy, along with a bibliography and illustrations..
Sassoon relays in stunning detail the rise of the Sassoons.
Grand if somewhat plodding.