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Mellon: An American Life
by David Cannadine
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679450327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450320
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. A fine first edition, as stated, in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. xvi, 779 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) . Octavo 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. Andrew Mellon, one of America’s greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America’s course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business–prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken idol. Collecting art was his only nonprofessional gratification and his great gift to the American people, The National Gallery of Art, remains his most tangible legacy." ---Princeton University From the private collection of noted attorney, sailor, and sometime cowboy, Joshua L. Soske Jr.
Synopsis
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
- Uncommon Works
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1359
- Title
- Mellon: An American Life
- Author
- David Cannadine
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679450327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450320
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
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