A Biography of an Industrialist and Philanthropist From Pittsburgh

By Anne W. Howard

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Mellon: An American Life
by David Cannadine

David Cannadine, a British author and historian, traces the life of Andrew W. Mellon — a financier, industrialist, and so-called "robber baron" of the late 19th and early 20th century — from his family's roots in Ireland and the amassing of his incredible wealth, to his unhappy marriage and tax-fraud trial, to the legacy he preserved through his