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MELLON'S MILLIONSHarvey O'ConnorJohn Day ($3). Few stars have receded into space more swiftly than, in a few months time, the Greatest-Secretary-of-the-Treasury-since-Alexander Hamilton has receded into history. Time seemed ripe for a biography before Andrew William Mellon dwindled entirely from man's ken. Biographer O'Connor is no flattering admirer. Far from it. With no sympathy for his subject, he is still journalist enough not to enter into vituperation, historian enough to dig diligently for facts. Hence Mellon's Millions, no impartial appraisal of Andrew Mellon, tells more of how the Mellons made their millions...
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