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Author Gross, Michael, 1952-
Title Rogues' gallery : the secret history of the moguls and the money that made the Metropolitan Museum / Michael Gross.
Publication Info. New York : Broadway Books, 2009.
Open Library Cover
Location Call No. Status
 Stack 12  708.1 G    IN LIBRARY
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 545 p. 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-528) and index.
Contents Archaeologist: Luigi Palma di Cesnola, 1870-1904 -- Capitalist: J. Pierpont Morgan, 1904-1912 -- Philanthropist: John D. Rockefeller Jr., 1912-1938 -- Catalyst: Robert Moses, 1938-1960 -- Exhibitionist: Thomas P.F. Hoving, 1960-1976 -- Arrivistes: Jane and Annette Engelhard, 1976-2009.
Subject Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
Art -- Collectors and collecting -- United States -- Biography.
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832-1904.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913.
Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981.
Hoving, Thomas, 1931-
Added Title Secret history of the moguls and the money that made the Metropolitan Museum
ISBN 9780767924887
0767924886