http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/natasha_fairweather en http://www.newstatesman.com/199811200036 http://www.newstatesman.com/199811200036 Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:00:00 GMT Natasha Fairweather The World's Banker: The History of the House of Rothschild Niall Ferguson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1,309pp, £30 The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty Frederic Morton Kodansha International, 332pp, $16

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/199811130048 http://www.newstatesman.com/199811130048 Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:00:00 GMT Natasha Fairweather Lenin's Embalmers Ilya Zbarsky and Samuel Hutchinson The Harvill Press, 215pp, £12.99

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