New York: Alfred A. Knopf [0-679-45032-7] 2006, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) 778pp. Near fine in fine dust jacket. Photographs, illustrations, notes, index. The top of the spine is gently edgeworn. "A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each". Book about Andrew H. Mellon, New Deal. Time Period 19th Century & 20th Century. Locale: Pennsylvania. (Biography, Business, Government--United States, Philanthropy, Politics--United States).

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David Cannadine was born in Birmingham in 1950 and educated at the Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton. He is the editor and author of many acclaimed books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which won the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Governors' Award; Aspects of Aristocracy ; G. M. Trevelyan ; The Pleasures of the Past; History in Our Time ; and Class in Britain . He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia and is now the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

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Bookseller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 153081
Title: Mellon; An American Life
Author: Cannadine, David
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0679450327
ISBN 13: 9780679450320
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: October 3, 2006
Keywords: Biography, Business, Government--United States, Philanthropy, Politics--United States
Bookseller catalogs: Biography;

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