Reflections in a Silver Spoon - A Memoir

John Murray, 1992. Good secondhand condition.

The autobiography of Paul Mellon, son of Andrew W. Mellon the stately and fabled banker and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. He tells of his unhappy childhood and being shuttled from mansion to mansion, to being a success as a husband, father, soldier, and friend. He followed his father into Mellon Bank, but in 1941 he relinquished all his directorships and set himself a future in philanthropy. He is widely known and admired in the worlds of art, thoroughbred racing and breeding, and environmental protection. These memoirs were a joint endeavor by Paul Mellon's old friend and adviser in matters of art John Baskett.