A Gift of Belief, edited by Kathleen W. Buechel

Posted by on Dec 1, 2021 in | Comments Off on A Gift of Belief, edited by Kathleen W. Buechel A Gift of Belief Philanthropy and the Forging of Pittsburgh edited by Kathleen W. Buechel University of Pittsburgh Press, 480 pp., hardcover $40 American urban history offers numerous examples of families who, having made their fortune, departed for more refined locales, leaving environmental and social ruin in their wake. The most prominent example of that phenomenon was the Rockefellers of...
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