Descended from the founders of two major Wall Street firms (Lehman Brothers and Loeb, Rhoades), Ambassador John L. Loeb Jr. weaves a fascinating, poignant personal story with an insider’s perspective on business, diplomacy, family ties and expectations, and the social life of New York’s elite from the nineteenth century to the present. Illustrated with more than 600 photos. With DVD, endnotes, appendices, and index.