American businessman Andrew William Mellon (1855-1937) crowned a highly successful entrepreneurial career with over a decade of service as U.S. secretary of the Treasury.Andrew Mellon was born on Marc...
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Librarians seem like the bookish types who hang out by stacks and make friends with moldy books. But David Smith, 54, a supervising librarian in the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanit...
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Move over, Martin Luther King Jr., and your desire for a colorblind society. The University of California system prefers a color-coordinated one.UC's Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools ...
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Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35.
The political wags tell us we’re living in a new Gilded Age, so it’s probably a good time to check in ...
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Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine. Alfred A. Knopf, 779 pages, $35.
The political wags tell us we’re living in a new Gilded Age, so it’s probably a good time to check in...
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Andrew William Mellon
David Smith: Librarian to the Stars
