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Joseph Sassoon on a family dynasty

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Meet 
Joseph Sassoon
discussing
The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants
and the Making of an Empire (Pantheon, $35)

Saturday, February 18, 7PM
LIVE + IN-PERSON at Books & Books, Coral Gables
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The riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade—cotton, opium, shipping, banking—that reached across three continents and ultimately changed the destinies of nations.
David Sassoon (seated) and his sons. Sassoon moved his family to India from Baghdad in 1832, from where the family business empire spread to Shanghai and Hong Kong. Photo: Pictures From History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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About the Author
JOSEPH SASSOON is Professor of History and Politics at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Associate Member at St. Antony’s College, Oxford and a Trustee of the Bodleian Library. His previous books include the prize-winning Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, The Iraqi Refugees and The Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics.
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