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ike the Rothschilds before him in Europe, August Belmont helped transform America from a provincial and almost purely agricultural nation to a prosperous industrial country.
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Kenneth L. Fisher (100 Minds That Made the Market (Fisher Investments Press Book 23))
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August Belmont was widely attacked in the North during the American Civil War because he favoured a negotiated peace with the South and supported General George McClellan’s nom ination as Democrat candidate in 1864.
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Niall Ferguson (The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848)
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Sephardic Lazaruses, Nathans, and Hendrickses. It had also had August Belmont, and it now had his sons—August, Jr., Oliver, and Perry—and it had at least one acknowledged German Jew, the banker Adolph Ladenburg.
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Stephen Birmingham (Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York)
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But some strange sea change had taken place. He was no longer August Schönberg but August Belmont, the French equivalent of Schönberg (meaning “beautiful mountain”). As August Belmont, furthermore, he was no longer a Jew but a gentile, and no longer German but, as people in New York began to say, “Some sort of Frenchman—we think.
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Stephen Birmingham (Our Crowd: The Great Jewish Families of New York)