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Simon & Schuster
February 2015
On Sale: February 3, 2015
ISBN: 1416576576
EAN: 9781416576570
Kindle: B00LD1S4FI
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A deeply reported, fast-paced exposΓ© of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vaticanβthe worldβs biggest, most powerful religious institutionβfrom an acclaimed journalist with βexhaustive research techniquesβ (The New York Times). From a master chronicler of legal and financial misconduct, a magnificent investigation nine years in the making, this book traces the political intrigue and inner workings of the Catholic Church. Decidedly not about faith, belief in God, or religious doctrine, this book is about the churchβs accumulation of wealth and its byzantine entanglements with financial markets 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 perhaps the most influential organization in the history of the world. Godβs Bankers has it all: a rare exposΓ© and an astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable 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 churchβs aims and ambitions, but reflect the larger dilemmas of the worldβs 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 Vaticanβs Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable financial quagmire. Part thriller, part financial tell-all, this book shows with extraordinary precision how the Vatican has evolved from a foundation of faith to a corporation of extreme wealth and power.
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