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Original title: Maailman 50 vaarallisinta sukua
Author: Hannu Sokala
Published: 2023
Publisher: Otava/Nemo
Genre: General Nonfiction
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They prefer to stay in the shadows. Who are the families with the most influence in the world?
- A bestseller in Finland with close to 8,000 copies sold!
- The newest title by the co-author of The 50 Most Dangerous Companies in the World, sold to 8 territories!
- English sample available, featuring 5 of the dangerous families: Rotenberg, Musk, Guriev, Grimaldi, Wallenberg
- Updates slated for 2024!
Very few of us know the Lees, the al-Nahyans, the Quandts, the Safras or the Wertheimers. We all know, however, their companies Samsung, Manchester City, BMW, Chiquita, and Chanel. Many of the world’s most influential companies are still family businesses, and many of these families go back many generations, some even to the 18th Century. Many of them operate around the world, and some are worth tens of billions of dollars. Still, we know astonishingly little about these families.
The stories of the families in this book contain larger-than-life characters, unbelievable plots, and numerous conflicts, tragedies, and successes. This non-fiction book by the experienced business journalist Hannu Sokala offers a comprehensive and surprising perspective on the world’s most important, and dangerous families.
In his book, Hannu Sokala has gathered a selection of rich families who, in addition to wealth, have gathered influence that stretches in multiple directions. In the foreword, he states that as a journalist, not as a researcher or a historian, he has selected families that appear more influential and interesting than others. The reader is grateful. [---] This book, like THE 50 MOST DANGEROUS COMPANIES IN THE WORLD, published in 2021 (co-authored by Sokala and Juha-Pekka Raeste), deserve a spot in everyone’s personal library.
Leena Brandt, Verde online newspaper
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