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Interview in June 2017 edition of Online Review of Books & Current Affairs

 

 

The Last Book


GOD'S BANKERS: A HISTORY OF MONEY AND POWER AT THE VATICAN

A New York Times Bestseller

 

Critical Praise

"A meticulous work that cracks wide open the Vatican’s legendary, enabling secrecy." KIRKUS

"The book will captivate those who prefer their historical nonfiction spiked with real-life tales of murder, power and intrigue."  BOOKLIST

"Accessible and well written, Posner's is the definitive history of the topic to date."  PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

"A stunning exposé...As exciting as a mystery thriller." PROVIDENCE JOURNAL

"A tale of intrigue, money and power that spans centuries...gripping reading...meticulously researched...a compelling story"  WASHINGTON INDEPENDENT REVIEW

"Posner's compelling book...:  PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER 

"deeply researched, passionately argued...Posner..,is a merciless pitbull of an investigator, marshaling mountains of evidence to make his arguments." CHICAGO TRIBUNE

"An exhaustive history of the financial machinations at the center of the church in Rome....Posner weaves an extraordinarily intricate tale of intrigue, corruption and organized criminality."   NEW YORK TIMES

 

Selected National Book Tour Appearances for God'S Bankers

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NPR Morning Edition, January 30
Smerconish CNN, January 31
Diane Rehm, February 2
TheStreet.com - February 3
The Daily Ticker/Yahoo! Finance - February 3
HuffPost Live - February 3
Taking Stock/Bloomberg TV - February 4
Leonard Lopate WNYC-AM - February 4
Biz Talk/Jim Campbell - February 17
NPR/Topical Currents - March 5
THE DAILY SHOW with Jon Stewart - March 5
Conversations With Great Minds/Thom Hartmann, Pt 1 - March 16
Conversations With Great Minds/Thom Hartmann, Pt 2 - March 16
REAL TIME with BILL MAHER (clip) - March 20
Boom Bust, RT, PART 1 and PART 2, April 1
 Chicago Council on Global Affairs (with Garry Wills) -  June 4
Michael Smerconish SIRIUS - June 19
Spirited Debate - September 11
CNBC Power Lunch - September 23
HuffPost Live - September 23
Yahoo! Finance - September 23
Boom Bust, RT - September 25
Bloomberg Markets - September 25
Fortune Live - September 25
After the Bell/FOX Business - September 26
WDHT World News,  September 14 and
C-Span Book TV - November 22

 

 

 

The Persona

Gerald Posner is an award winning journalist, bestselling author and attorney.  The Los Angeles Times dubs him "a classic-style investigative journalist." "His work is painstakingly honest journalism" concluded The Washington Post. The New York Times lauded his "exhaustive research techniques" and The Boston Globe talked of Posner's "thorough and hard-edge investigation." "A meticulous and serious researcher," said the New York Daily News.

The Books

His first book, Mengele, a 1986 biography of the Nazi "Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, was the result of a pro-bono lawsuit Posner brought on behalf of surviving twins from Auschwitz. Since then he has written ten other books from the Pulitzer Prize-finalist Case Closed, to bestsellers on political assassinations, organized crime, national politics, and 9/11 and terrorism. His upcoming God’s Bankers is the result of nine years of research. 

The Investigative

Based in the mixed realms of politics, history, and true crime, his articles - from The New York Times to The New Yorker to Newsweek, Time and The Daily Beast - have prompted Argentina to open its hidden Nazi files to researchers; raised disturbing questions about clues the FBI missed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing; sparked a reinvestigation of the Boston Strangler; and exposed Pete Rose's gambling addiction, which led to his ban from baseball.

 

God's Bankers is a fast-paced exposé of the money and the cardinals-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican

A trailer for the new book, THE PHARMACIST OF AUSCHWITZ: The Untold Story, by my wife, Trisha Posner