Mellon: An American Life
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- Synopsis
- From the preface: "Andrew W. Mellon was born in 1855, six years before the American Civil War broke out, and he died in 1937, when Pearl Harbor was barely four years away. At his death, he was himself half the age of the United States, and for much of his life, he played a formative part and significant role in its history. Indeed, the years from 1865 to 1933 have rightly been described as "The Age of Gold," when the United States became the first "billion-dollar country," and the fact that they almost exactly encompass Mellon's life is not coincidence. ' As a Pittsburgh banker, he financed and facilitated the massive industrial expansion of western Pennsylvania (and beyond) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, making himself a prodigious fortune. A lifelong Republican, he became the most highly acclaimed, longest-serving, and most controversial secretary of the treasury in modern times."
- Copyright:
- 2006
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 778 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780679450320
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 04/30/07
- Copyrighted By:
- David Cannadine
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Dr. Kenneth Cross
- Proofread By:
- RochC
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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