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Preface | p. xi |
Prologue: A Family in History | p. 3 |
In the Shadow of His Father, 1855-1900 | |
The Patriarch Presides: Father and Sons, 1855-73 | p. 27 |
The Family in Business: Boys and Banks, 1873-87 | p. 58 |
The "Mellon System" Inaugurated: "My Brother and I," 1887-98 | p. 89 |
The Great Leap Forward: Mergers and Matrimony, 1898-1900 | p. 123 |
Wealth's Triumphs, Fortune's Travails, 1900-1921 | |
The Transition Completed: Family Man and Venture Capitalist, 1901-1907 | p. 155 |
The First Scandal: Separation and Divorce, 1907-12 | p. 186 |
Life Goes On: Business (Almost) as Usual, 1907-14 | p. 215 |
New Careers for Old: Single Parent, Aging Plutocrat, Emerging Politician, 1914-21 | p. 245 |
The Rise and Fall of a Public Man, 1921-33 | |
Hard Times with Harding: Political Realities, Getting Started, Settling In, 1921-23 | p. 277 |
Better Years with Coolidge: Mellonizing America, Aggrandizing Himself, 1923-26 | p. 313 |
Carrying On with Hoover: Great Ideas to Great Crash, 1927-29 | p. 356 |
Triumphs amid Troubles: Fortune's Zenith, Russian Pictures, Pittsburgh Woes, 1929-31 | p. 395 |
"The Man Who Stayed Too Long": Depression, Departure, London and Back, 1931-33 | p. 435 |
Old Man, New Deal, 1933-37 | |
His World Turned Upside Down: An Unhappy Homecoming, 1933-34 | p. 473 |
The Second Scandal: The "Tax Trial" and the National Gallery of Art, 1933-36 | p. 505 |
Beginnings and Endings: The Gallery Established, a Life in Its Fullness, 1936-37 | p. 546 |
Epilogue: A Fortune in History | p. 583 |
The Mellon Family | p. 622 |
A Note on Sources | p. 625 |
Abbreviations for Notes | p. 629 |
Notes | p. 633 |
Acknowledgments | p. 735 |
Index | p. 739 |
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