St. Peter's Banker
Author : Luigi DiFonzo
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Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Bankers
ISBN : 9780906391747
Author : Luigi DiFonzo
Publisher :
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Bankers
ISBN : 9780906391747
Author : Luigi DiFonzo
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Gerald Posner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1439109869
New York Times Bestseller: A “deeply researched” exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican (Chicago Tribune). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, God’s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in “a meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy” (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church’s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Telling the story through two hundred years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the world’s most influential organizations. God’s Bankers is a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from popes and cardinals to financiers and mobsters to kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that not only clarify the church’s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. Posner also assesses Pope Francis’s potential to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. “As exciting as a mystery thriller” (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power. “Reads like a sprawling novel, full of complex characters and surprising twists. . . . Readers interested in issues involving religion and international finance will find Posner’s work a compelling read.” —Library Journal “An extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality. . . . Posner’s gifts as a reporter and storyteller are most vividly displayed in a series of lurid chapters on the American archbishop Paul Marcinkus, the arch-Machiavellian who ran the Vatican Bank from 1971-1989.” —The New York Times Book Review
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Bankers
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Page : 2686 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 1704 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 1905-07
Category : Bankers
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Page : 690 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Banks and banking
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Page : 2318 pages
File Size : 38,59 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Bankers
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