The Victim's Fortune: Inside the Epic Battle over the Debts of the Holocaust
Autor John Authers, Richard Wolffeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iul 2003
A riveting account of what went wrong in the battle over compensation for Holocaust survivors
Fifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Backed by class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, they mounted a vigorous challenge against some of the world's largest corporations and governments to demand billions of dollars. But what began as a moral crusade soon became a bare-knuckle battle that opened up painful debates about whether money can ever compensate for the horrors of the Holocaust.
John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. The Victim's Fortune captures the personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the fight over compensation -- all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060936877
ISBN-10: 0060936878
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0060936878
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
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Fifty years after World War II, a small group of Americans launched a campaign to confront the world with the fact that many assets looted by the Nazis had never been returned to their owners. Backed by class-action lawsuits and threats of economic sanctions, they mounted a vigorous challenge against some of the world's largest corporations and governments to demand billions of dollars. But what began as a moral crusade soon became a bare-knuckle battle that opened up painful debates about whether money can ever compensate for the horrors of the Holocaust.
John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. The Victim's Fortune captures the personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the fight over compensation -- all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.
John Authers and Richard Wolffe offer a spellbinding investigative account of this momentous international struggle. The Victim's Fortune captures the personalities, ruthless tactics, and moral dilemmas surrounding the fight over compensation -- all unfolding against the backdrop of one of the darkest moments in human history.
Recenzii
“Imagine a book with the narrative force and the behind-the-scenes revelations of Barbarians at the Gate. Now imagine that what’s at stake isn’t just which rich investment banker gets richer, but rather is one of the great moral issues of our time, restitution for Holocaust survivors. Imagine no more, because John Authers and Richard Wolffe have written just such a book in The Victim’s Fortune.” — Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew vs. Jew
“John Authers and Richard Wolffe avoid the trap of easy moralizing as they describe how what started out as a crusade for justice became caught up in petty squabbling, greed and ambition of richly drawn characters, from Jewish machers and class-action lawyers to leading bankers and heads of state.” — Washington Post
“Wolffe’s and Authers’ book is a fascinating morality tale. It is also an intriguing story about individual lawyers, politicians, corporate executives and Jewish leaders.” — Alan Dershowitz, The Financial Times
“A well-written account of a fascinating, convoluted set of events. . . . Authers and Wolffe excel in describing the effort of the World Jewish Congress, a battalion of class-action lawyers, and numerous politicians . . . to force Swiss banks to settle the issue of accounts that had lain dormant since the war.” — Neal Sandler, Business Week
“A gripping, exhaustively reported book. A highly readable tale, with richly drawn characters, Authers and Wolffe’s work shows how a just crusade was ultimately diminished by petty squabbling, misplaced ambition, and avarice. Along the way, the authors skillfully raise larger questions about the inadequacies of money as a measure of justice and about who can really speak for the victims of history’s greatest crime. A remarkable achievement.” — Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy and co-author of The Wise Men
“Fascinating and disturbing. . . . A Bleak House for our time. . . . The authors do a commendable job of charting the political and economic complexities of the various cases involved, keeping the narrative readable throughout.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Authers and Wolffe’s well-researched and nuanced book demonstrates how the struggle for reparations has simultaneously been a fight for justice and a vindictive squabble over money.” — Publishers Weekly
“The Victim’s Fortune is an important record and gives a powerful if painful recounting of the internal squabbles among Jewish organizations and between them and Holocaust survivors. . . .The portraits of the claims lawyers who joined the fray are especially good.” — Moment
“Authers and Wolffe tell the story with the clarity of first-class journalists. . . . Their impressive research results in fair and balanced writing. . . . The best summary to date of this ethical and legal world war.” — Library Journal
“Authers and Wolffe have turned an important, depressing, and intensely technical subject—the negotiations over how to repay Holocaust-era debts—into a gripping tale replete with deserving victims, grandstanding politicians, greedy class-action lawyers, and tightfisted European bankers.” — Foreign Affairs
“A powerful chronicle of the riveting negotiations and litigation that led to Germany, Swiss Banks, and many European corporations and insurance companies paying out billions of dollars to survivors of the Holocaust and to families of those who didn’t survive. . . . This is an almost Ludlum-esque page-turner.” — Booklist
“The Victim’s Fortune, a weighty piece of research and reporting, is not just a story about the Holocaust. It is the spellbinding account a half-century later of Jewish leaders, lawyers, judges, businessmen, government officials, and, above all, the victim-survivors who were searching for justice in the form of some kind of payback.” — Washington Times
“This suspenseful tale is captured with journalistic verve [and] judicious balance. . . . A mesmerizing account of intrigue, inspiration and ingenuity.” — Jewish Week
“John Authers and Richard Wolffe avoid the trap of easy moralizing as they describe how what started out as a crusade for justice became caught up in petty squabbling, greed and ambition of richly drawn characters, from Jewish machers and class-action lawyers to leading bankers and heads of state.” — Washington Post
“Wolffe’s and Authers’ book is a fascinating morality tale. It is also an intriguing story about individual lawyers, politicians, corporate executives and Jewish leaders.” — Alan Dershowitz, The Financial Times
“A well-written account of a fascinating, convoluted set of events. . . . Authers and Wolffe excel in describing the effort of the World Jewish Congress, a battalion of class-action lawyers, and numerous politicians . . . to force Swiss banks to settle the issue of accounts that had lain dormant since the war.” — Neal Sandler, Business Week
“A gripping, exhaustively reported book. A highly readable tale, with richly drawn characters, Authers and Wolffe’s work shows how a just crusade was ultimately diminished by petty squabbling, misplaced ambition, and avarice. Along the way, the authors skillfully raise larger questions about the inadequacies of money as a measure of justice and about who can really speak for the victims of history’s greatest crime. A remarkable achievement.” — Evan Thomas, author of Robert Kennedy and co-author of The Wise Men
“Fascinating and disturbing. . . . A Bleak House for our time. . . . The authors do a commendable job of charting the political and economic complexities of the various cases involved, keeping the narrative readable throughout.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Authers and Wolffe’s well-researched and nuanced book demonstrates how the struggle for reparations has simultaneously been a fight for justice and a vindictive squabble over money.” — Publishers Weekly
“The Victim’s Fortune is an important record and gives a powerful if painful recounting of the internal squabbles among Jewish organizations and between them and Holocaust survivors. . . .The portraits of the claims lawyers who joined the fray are especially good.” — Moment
“Authers and Wolffe tell the story with the clarity of first-class journalists. . . . Their impressive research results in fair and balanced writing. . . . The best summary to date of this ethical and legal world war.” — Library Journal
“Authers and Wolffe have turned an important, depressing, and intensely technical subject—the negotiations over how to repay Holocaust-era debts—into a gripping tale replete with deserving victims, grandstanding politicians, greedy class-action lawyers, and tightfisted European bankers.” — Foreign Affairs
“A powerful chronicle of the riveting negotiations and litigation that led to Germany, Swiss Banks, and many European corporations and insurance companies paying out billions of dollars to survivors of the Holocaust and to families of those who didn’t survive. . . . This is an almost Ludlum-esque page-turner.” — Booklist
“The Victim’s Fortune, a weighty piece of research and reporting, is not just a story about the Holocaust. It is the spellbinding account a half-century later of Jewish leaders, lawyers, judges, businessmen, government officials, and, above all, the victim-survivors who were searching for justice in the form of some kind of payback.” — Washington Times
“This suspenseful tale is captured with journalistic verve [and] judicious balance. . . . A mesmerizing account of intrigue, inspiration and ingenuity.” — Jewish Week
Notă biografică
John Authers has been a Financial Times journalist since 1990, and conducted most of the research for this book in New York where he was the paper's banking correspondent from 1996 to 2001. Shortly after completing the manuscript, he moved to Mexico City where he is now the paper's bureau chief.
A graduate of Oxford University, he more recently took advantage of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economic and Financial Journalism to study at Columbia University, conducting the early planning for The Victim's Fortune at the journalism school, and earning an MBA from the business school
Before going to New York he worked in London, winning awards for coverage of investment (as the Unit Trust Association's national journalist of the year in 1992) and of education (as the Business and Technical Education Council's national newspaper journalist of the year for 1994). Prior to the FT, he did freelance work for London's Daily Telegraph and Guardian, and also worked for Congressional Quarterly in Washington, DC.
A keen classical singer, he has performed in Carnegie Hall and in concert halls across Europe, in the choirs for soloists including Cecilia Bartoli, Luciano Pavarotti, and Bryn Terfel. He is also an enthusiastic walker, who has climbed Kilimanjaro and reached the base camps of Everest, and of K2's Concordia glacier.
Authers lives in Mexico City with his fiancee Sara Silver, also a Financial Times journalist.
Richard Wolffe is U.S. diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times and deputy bureau chief in Washington, D.C.