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THE SASSOONS: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
Author: Joseph Sassoon
Publisher: Pantheon
Pages: 432
Price: $35
When Edward VII ascended the British throne in 1901, Winston Churchill — then on a lecture tour of Canada — sent a letter to his mother. “I am curious to know about the king,” he wrote. “Will it entirely revolutionize his way of life? Will he sell his horses and scatter his Jews or will Reuben Sassoon be enshrined among the crown jewels and other regalia?”
When Edward VII ascended the British throne in 1901, Winston Churchill — then on a lecture tour of Canada — sent a letter to his mother. “I am curious to know about the king,” he wrote. “Will it entirely revolutionize his way of life? Will he sell his horses and scatter his Jews or will Reuben Sassoon be enshrined among the crown jewels and other regalia?”
What Churchill perhaps didn’t know was that the “enshrinement” of Sassoon — and, really, of his entire family
