I can’t imagine a time in recent memory when Frances Dinkelspiel’s forthcoming book, Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California, has been more relevant. I’ll post more about this book next month, but for the moment, read what Dinkelspiel had to say about it in a newsletter today: For the past eight years I have been working on a biography of my great great grandfather, Isaias Hellman, one of the most influential financiers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hellman started the first successful bank in Los Angeles, went on to head...
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