God's Bankers - A History of Money and Power at the Vatican

Informationen zum Autor Gerald Posner is an award-winning journalist who has written twelve books, including the Pulitzer Prize finalist Case Closed and multiple national bestsellers. His 2015 book, God’s Bankers , a two-hundred-year history of the finances of the Vatican, was an acclaimed New York Times bestseller. Posner has written for many national magazines and papers, including The New York Times , The New Yorker , Newsweek , and Time , and he has been a regular contributor to NBC, the History Channel, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, and FOX News. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, author Trisha Posner. Klappentext A deeply reported, fast-paced expose of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the church's accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets across the world. Zusammenfassung A deeply reported, fast-paced exposé of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Posner, Gerald L. Posner
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2015
• EAN: 9781416576594
• ISBN: 978-1-4165-7659-4
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 215 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book