Mellon: An American Life, (Paperback)

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Herbert Spencer, English philosopher: credited for the quote "survival of the fittest". Robert Burns, poet and lyricist: favorite son of Scotland. His father was Thomas Mellon, a self-made millionaire. Contemporary of Carnegie and Frisk. Pittsburg is the Mellon and Carnegie hometown. The Mellon f...

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Andrew Mellon was many things in his long life: master financier, Gilded Age plutocrat, art collector, and the US Treasury Secretary popularly credited with creating the unprecedented prosperity of the 1920s and widely blamed for the catastrophe of the Great Depression of the 1930s (rather like f...

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This is a good biography but not a fine one. It tells of the events in Mellon's life quite well, being equal parts business life, political life, family life, art-buying life. Though a commissioned biography (by Mellon's son Paul), Cannadine never ever quite supports his subject. The author note...

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Mellon An American Life by David Cannadine biography of Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937) Sir David Cannadine joined Princeton in the fall of 2008, having previously held positions at Cambridge, Columbia and London Universities. "Andrew W. Mellon belonged to a remarkable American generation which witn...

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Mellon An American Life by David Cannadine biography of Andrew W. Mellon (1855-1937) Sir David Cannadine joined Princeton in the fall of 2008, having previously held positions at Cambridge, Columbia and London Universities. "Andrew W. Mellon belonged to a remarkable American generation which witn...