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Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California
by Frances Dinkelspiel
from St. Martin's Press
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 
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Joyce McMenamin's Review of TOWERS of GOLD - Originally Published Nov 18, 2008 at IDEA MASTERS Online Real-Time Magazine.
A Multi Generational Family Affair: A Great-Great-Grand-Daughter Intimates About 'Another Way' the West Was Won by a Master Networker from the 19th Century.
A Book Review by M. Joyce McMenamin
of a Remarkable Biography by Frances Dinkelspiel
{Edited for posting at Amazon.com}
This is not just another book.
This is a rare treasure that I will personally tuck away to read again in my own retirement and hand down to my only child as an extended gift from a personal library that has... more info
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From J. Kaye's Book Blog
"Towers of Gold" by Frances Dinkelspiel is about her great-great-grandfather, Isaias Hellman. If you have never heard of him, you might know one of the banks he built, Wells Fargo Bank. Wells Fargo was in the news several months back by buying Wachovia, one of those failed banks. Speaking of failed banks, this book also shows the start and rise of Lehman Brothers Bank, which declared bankruptcy this year.
This is not about banking, it's about a German-Jewish immigrant that ended up in Los Angeles who... more info
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Epic unknown history of California
Towers of Gold rediscovers Isaias Hellman, once justly celebrated as one of the most important businessmen in California's development, both in Los Angeles and San Francisco. There is hardly a major California economic development in a 50-year span with which Hellman was not involved. Dinkelspiel has created a fascinating history of the state's growth through the lens of one man's history.
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Loved it
I was hooked from the introduction when the writer describes discovering boxes of her great-great grandfather's letters and papers and realizing she had a story to tell. From that great beginning, this book continued to hold me in its vivid, dramatic rendering of California history and of this man, a true tycoon. Until this book, I had not heard of Hellman , but now I see his influence regularly in my life in California, starting with Wells Fargo banks. Hellman not only started this bank, but the author... more info
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