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Mellon: An American Life is a major biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the banker, industrial investor, philanthropist, and long-serving U.S. Treasury Secretary who helped shape American finance and public policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written by historian David Cannadine, the book combines political, business, and social history to explain how Mellon rose from Pittsburgh family enterprise to national power, and how his reputation became tied to both prosperity and controversy. It is not simply a record of offices held or fortunes accumulated. Instead, it examines the structures of family capitalism, the expansion of American industry, Mellon’s role in government during the Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover administrations, and his later legacy as a patron of art and founder of the National Gallery of Art. The biography is also notable for treating Mellon as a complicated figure rather than a caricature, placing his public achievements alongside his private reserve, political unpopularity, and disputed historical image.