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In 1885, at the age of seventy-two and'in the evening of life,'Thomas Mellon published his autobiography in a limited edition exclusively for his family. He was a distinguished and highly successful Pittsburgh entrepreneur, judge, and banker, and his descendants would play major roles in American business, art, and philanthropy. Two of his sons, Andrew William and Richard Beatty, were to join Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller as the four wealthiest men in the United States.Thomas Mellon was an anomaly among the great American capitalists of his time. Highly literate and intelligent, astute and deadly honest about his own life and financial success, and an excellent narrative writer with a chilly but genuine sense of humor, he wrote a perspective and self-revealing book that remains to this day a major autobiography and an important source for American social and business history.That it has found very few readers in the 114 year since its publication is due to the author himself. Warning his descendants in the preface that the book should never'be for sale in the bookstore, nor any new edition published,'because it contains'nothing which concerns the public to know, and much which

Author

Thomas Mellon

Publisher

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822955726

Subjects

Memoir, Business, Economics