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

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

A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposÃ© of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vaticanâ€”the worldâ€™s biggest, most powerful religious institutionâ€”from an acclaimed journalist with â€œexhaustive research techniquesâ€ (The New York Times).

From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, Godâ€™s Bankers traces the political intrigue of the Catholic Church in â€œa meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vaticanâ€™s legendary, enabling secrecyâ€ (Kirkus Reviews). Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the churchâ€™s accumulation of wealth and its byzantine financial entanglements across the world. Told through 200 years of prelates, bishops, cardinals, and the Popes who oversee it all, Gerald Posner uncovers an eyebrow-raising account of money and power in one of the worldâ€™s most influential organizations.

Godâ€™s Bankers has it all: a revelatory and astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, and mysterious deaths written off as suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that clarify not only the churchâ€™s aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger tensions of more recent history. And Posner even looks to the future to surmise if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vaticanâ€™s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. â€œAs exciting as a mystery thrillerâ€ (Providence Journal), this book reveals with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 2x8-page b-w insert
ReleaseDate 2015-09-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416576594

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	2x8-page b-w insert
ReleaseDate	2015-09-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416576594

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

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