Mullen Books

Mellon: An American Life

Cannadine, David

New York: A.A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. Forest green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black, green, and red lettering. xvi, 779 pp. 48 unnumbered pages of plates. VG/VG. Item #172973
ISBN: 9780679450320

Chronicles the life of nineteenth and twentieth-century American financier Andrew W. Mellon, examining such aspects as his childhood in Pittsburgh; the building of his fortune; his personal life; his term as Secretary of the Treasury; his tax evasion trial, which ended in a not guilty verdict; and his creation of the National Gallery of Art.

OCLC: 65521620

Price: $29.97