August 17, 2008

“Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures”

Cynthia Saltzman (Viking, $27.95)

Ever wonder how some of best works by old masters ended up in American museums? Art historian and journalist Cynthia Saltzman tells the history of how tycoons and art dealers of the Gilded Age snatched them up.

– ROBERT L. PINCUS

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