It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

Modern Times: A History of the World From the 1920s to the Year 2000 (ed. Hachette UK, 2013) - ISBN: 9781780227221