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| Preface | |
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| Prologue: A Family in History | |
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| In the Shadow of His Father, 1855-1900 | |
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| The Patriarch Presides: Father and Sons, 1855-73 | |
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| The Family in Business: Boys and Banks, 1873-87 | |
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| The "Mellon System" Inaugurated: "My Brother and I," 1887-98 | |
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| The Great Leap Forward: Mergers and Matrimony, 1898-1900 | |
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| Wealth's Triumphs, Fortune's Travails, 1900-1921 | |
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| The Transition Completed: Family Man and Venture Capitalist, 1901-1907 | |
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| The First Scandal: Separation and Divorce, 1907-12 | |
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| Life Goes On: Business (Almost) as Usual, 1907-14 | |
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| New Careers for Old: Single Parent, Aging Plutocrat, Emerging Politician, 1914-21 | |
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| The Rise and Fall of a Public Man, 1921-33 | |
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| Hard Times with Harding: Political Realities, Getting Started, Settling In, 1921-23 | |
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| Better Years with Coolidge: Mellonizing America, Aggrandizing Himself, 1923-26 | |
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| Carrying On with Hoover: Great Ideas to Great Crash, 1927-29 | |
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| Triumphs amid Troubles: Fortune's Zenith, Russian Pictures, Pittsburgh Woes, 1929-31 | |
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| "The Man Who Stayed Too Long": Depression, Departure, London and Back, 1931-33 | |
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| Old Man, New Deal, 1933-37 | |
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| His World Turned Upside Down: An Unhappy Homecoming, 1933-34 | |
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| The Second Scandal: The "Tax Trial" and the National Gallery of Art, 1933-36 | |
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| Beginnings and Endings: The Gallery Established, a Life in Its Fullness, 1936-37 | |
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| Epilogue: A Fortune in History | |
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| The Mellon Family | |
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| A Note on Sources | |
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| Abbreviations for Notes | |
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| Notes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |