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Mellon: An American Life
de Cannadine, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- VG/VG
- ISBN 10
- 0679450327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450320
- Librería
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: A.A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. VG/VG. Forest green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black, green, and red lettering. xvi, 779 pp. 48 unnumbered pages of plates. Chronicles the life of nineteenth and twentieth-century American financier Andrew W. Mellon, examining such aspects as his childhood in Pittsburgh; the building of his fortune; his personal life; his term as Secretary of the Treasury; his tax evasion trial, which ended in a not guilty verdict; and his creation of the National Gallery of Art.
Sinopsis
David Cannadine was born in Birmingham in 1950 and educated at the Cambridge, Oxford, and Princeton. He is the editor and author of many acclaimed books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which won the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Governors' Award; Aspects of Aristocracy ; G. M. Trevelyan ; The Pleasures of the Past; History in Our Time ; and Class in Britain . He has taught at Cambridge and Columbia and is now the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 172973
- Título
- Mellon: An American Life
- Autor
- Cannadine, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - VG/VG
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0679450327
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450320
- Editorial
- A.A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2006
- Palabras clave
- Biography / Autobiography, Andrew Mellon ; Mellon, Andrew W. ; ;
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