PositiveAir Mail... exhaustively researched and elegantly written ... In addition to her expertise in horticulture, Griswold drew on her personal familiarity with the Mellon family ... With the book’s breaks in chronology, characters sometimes ricochet through it ... Notwithstanding her extreme discretion, Griswold sees Mellon ultimately as an impresario and a showman who theatrically created one spectacular work of fantasy after another. She sure had quite a run.
