American Midas and Maecenas From: The Spectator | Date: December 2, 2006| Author: Ondaatje, Christopher | Copyright Spectator Dec 2, 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

MELLON : AN AMERICAN LIFE by David Cannadine Penguin, £30, pp. 560, ISBN 0713995084 . £24 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655

In this current climate of diminishing government funding, it is important for us to turn to other means of supporting public purposes, philanthropy being one. Britain therefore has wisely looked to America where they have never had the same level of government support for social causes. The percentage of individual charitable giving to GDP is more than doub...

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