Andrew Mellon

Contrasting Capitalists, Balanced Biographies

Pittsburgh powerhouses: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) and Andrew Mellon (1855-1937).
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Pittsburgh powerhouses: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) and Andrew Mellon (1855-1937).

Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35.    read more »

Contrasting Capitalists, Balanced Biographies

Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35.  read more »

Mellon Townhouse Hits Market for $26.5 M.; Court TV's Jami Floyd Moves On Up to West Side for $1.3 M.

Paul Mellon's East 70th Street townhouse is up for sale.
Melanie Flood
Paul Mellon's East 70th Street townhouse is up for sale.

The storied Upper East Side townhouse that just entered the market for $26.5 million was attracting  read more »

Yale's Mellon Collection Brings Back Anglophilia

Has anyone ever thought of writing a combined history of thevarying fortunes of Anglophilia and Angl  read more »

20th-Century Collectors: The Patrons Have a Show

Some subjects in the art world are better left to be dealt with historically than in the present ten  read more »