?[Business] research has found nothing more interesting, more picturesque, more impressive in the vast power wielded, more valuable historically than the story of the famous Fugger family and the mighty business house it built and developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Several books have been written about it, and this new one, concerned with the most famous, most capable and most interesting of all its members, will be as interesting for the general reader as for the special student of business history.?-New York Times