Mellon : an American life

著者

• Cannadine, David

書誌事項

Mellon : an American life

David Cannadine

Allen Lane, imprint of Penguin Books, 2006

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Andrew Mellon rose to become one of America's greatest financiers. Despite painful shyness and personal misery - his loveless marriage ended in scandalous divorce - he built a mighty and diverse fortune, tracking America's course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, he made the federal government run like a business - prefiguring the public official as CEO - and won credit for the Roaring Twenties. But Mellon would stay on too long: blamed for the Great Depression, he eventually found himself a broken icon, his every fiscal assumption overthrown by the New Deal. Prosecuted for tax evasion, Mellon would not abandon his last dream, to make a great gift to America; but he died before his National Gallery of Art was realized. David Cannadine is one of our greatest historians and "Mellon" is his masterpiece.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA86305796
• ISBN:
  • 9780713995084
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: xvi, 779 p., [46] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 336.73092
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William), 1855-1937
  • LCSH : Bankers -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Cabinet officers -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Philanthropists -- United States -- Biography