Sinopsis
Anumber of people have contributed to the creationof this book, and I owe each and everyone a vote of thanks. I am especially grateful tomy friend Dan Alef, without whose encouragement and interest I would never have started—or finished—the book; Victoria Skurnick, my wonderful agent, who gave me faith in myself and wrote such a great pitch on my behalf; my publisher and editor, Airié Stuart, whose advice transformed an assortment of rambling verbal snapshots into a meaningful portrait of an extraordinary man unknown by the public;the ever-patient Marie Ostby and Leah Carroll, for fielding unending questions about the minutiae of the publishing world; David Rotstein, who designed the wonderful jacket; and Kathleen Laman, along with Ardis Parshall, for their assistance in typing the manuscript.
Ever since my fourth-grade teacher spun tales of the pharaohs and the treasures buried with them inside the pyramids, I have harbored a wild desire to dig and discover secrets of my own. They say archeology is in your blood—my great-aunt Hetty was a famed Mesopotamiast who participated in significant excavations in Greece and Turkey in the 1920s and 30s and was the first woman fellow in the humanities department of the Institute for Advanced Study. But I never saw Egypt or the land of the Iliad until I was well into middle age, and by then my intellectual curiosity had become more focused on a subject closer to my real-time life, my grandfather Henry Goldman, the iconic, innovative co-leader of the great firm Goldman Sachs, and America’s first investment banker.
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