Mellon and Money: The Story of a Great Treasury Secretary

Instructor: Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed

Andrew Mellon, one of the longest-serving U.S. Treasury secretaries, ranks as a giant of enterprise, finance, and public policy in the first half of the 20th Century. In this lecture, Mr. Reed will explain Mellon’s critical role in shaping the economic policies of three administrations and why, if his views had prevailed in the 1930s, perhaps the Great Depression would have been a footnote instead of the catastrophe that it was.