{"product_id":"9780713995084-secondhand-mellon-an-american-life","title":"Mellon: An American Life","description":"Andrew Mellon rose to become one of America's greatest financiers. Despite painful shyness and personal misery - his loveless marriage ended in scandalous divorce - he built a mighty and diverse fortune, tracking America's course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, he made the federal government run like a business - prefiguring the public official as CEO - and won credit for the Roaring Twenties. But Mellon would stay on too long: blamed for the Great Depression, he eventually found himself a broken icon, his every fiscal assumption overthrown by the New Deal. Prosecuted for tax evasion, Mellon would not abandon his last dream, to make a great gift to America; but he died before his National Gallery of Art was realized. David Cannadine is one of our greatest historians and \"Mellon\" is his masterpiece.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49180921561307,"sku":"9780713995084-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/53546677-fd12-4588-911f-36d26e75d528.jpg?v=1787656792","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780713995084-secondhand-mellon-an-american-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}