Our Crowd Author:Stephen Birmingham "Here are the Seligmans, transformed overnight from peddlers to financial advisors to presidents. Here is Jacob Schif, not long out of the Frankfurt ghetto, contending with J. Pierpont Morgan himself....Here is Otto Kahn, engaging Gatti-Casazza and Toscanini to bring the Metropolitan Opera to the premier rank. Here are the Lehmans, rising from... more » peddlers to cotton brokers to banker to public servants..."« less