City of London: The History - Softcover

Kynaston, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099554828 ISBN 13: 9780099554820

Publisher: Vintage, 2012

Synopsis

Tells a story as dramatic as any novel, while explaining the mysteries of the financial world in a way that we can all understand. This book is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies, dress codes, eating habits, pay, humour, changing architecture and the unique culture of the Square Mile which brings us up to the modern age.

About this title

Review:

"Wonderful... This is real history; living history" (Sunday Times)

"Economic history at its most glittering" (The Times)

"A work of breathtaking scope and accomplishment" (Independent)

"Magisterial" (Observer)

"Everyone should read David Kynaston's riveting history of the City: a subject too important to be left to the bankers" (John Lanchester)

Book Description:

'No one knows more secrets about the City of London than David Kynaston ... about what goes on behind the copper-plate facades of old City firms, or in the boardrooms of the gleaming glasshouses. Kynaston is the historian of the City’ - Sunday Express

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0099554828
• ISBN 13: 9780099554820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704