Episode · The Realignment · 2021-05-25
Books mentioned on 127 | Zachary Karabell: Welcome to the Anti-American Century
Zachary Karabell, author of Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power, joins The Realignment to discuss the rise of American finance, the rise and fall of “the establishment,
Other mentions in this episode (4) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Inside Money
“and as i do say if not in the book when i do interviews uh living long is not in and of itself a reason to celebrate and the fact that they've been around for that long is not a reason to write a book about them”
Plugged Inside Money
“and part of what i try to bring out in the book is there's this other firm brown brothers harriman that for you know decades of its existence was just as central and just as important as goldman and as lehman and as morgan stanley”
Plugged Inside Money
“and one thing i do i mean i indicate in the book and then i've also really hammered home since the publication in articles and interviews is you would think the elites of today being as you said more meritocratic and and from a wider range would be more in tune with uh the relationship between their fortunes literally and”
Plugged Inside Money
“and just like to add to the embedded irony of this conversation you know we are here talking about a book that i wrote about a class that was a closed but public-minded elite”