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| Preface | |
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| Beginnings in Ulster, the Crossing, and the Fourth R | |
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| From Plowboy to Professor | |
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| Choosing the Law, Shopping for a Wife, the Great Fire of 1845 | |
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| The Taub, Winebiddle, and Negley Fortunes, or What Thomas Mellon Married | |
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| Home Life on Negley Lane, Raising the Mellon Boys | |
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| Years of the Law, First Encounter with James B. Corey, the Lee Case, Clash with Colonel Black, Entering the Coal Business Judge Thomas Mellon | |
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| The Storm over James's Enlistment | |
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| Closet Philosopher Mellon, His Infatuation with Herbert Spencer, Views on Religion and Education | |
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| On Capital Punishment and the Jury System; Four Hangings; Judges McClure, Sterrett, and Stowe | |
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| Banker and Businessman, His Larimer and Caldwell In-laws, the Founding of Mellon Brothers and of T Mellon & Sons, Loans to Henry Clay Frick | |
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| The Panic of 1873, His Finest Hour | |
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| The ABCD Lawsuits | |
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| Early Life of Andrew W. Mellon, His Friendship with Henry Clay Frick | |
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| The Mellons Build a Railroad, Leadership of the Family Passes to Andrew | |
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| The Judge's Clashes with Organized Labor: the �Great Uprising� of 1877, Prosecution of David Jones, Slander Suit against the National Labor Tribune | |
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| A Passage to Ireland, �Sinking� the Island | |
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| The Reluctant Politician | |
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| Andrew the Financier, His Father's Influence | |
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| The Judge Writes His Memoirs, How to Defeat Poverty | |
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| The Short Life and Long Death of George Mellon, Odyssey of the Glen Eyre, Richard Is Given Half of T. Mellon & Sons | |
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| The Judge's Relations with Frick and Carnegie | |
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| False Spring at Kansas City, Divestiture of the Fortune | |
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| The Inclines Abandoned, The �Boodlers� Routed, Judge Mellon Sued for Slander | |
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| Selwyn and George �Return� | |
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| The Long Twilight | |
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| In the Judge's Shadow: An Epilogue | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |