Spencer Trask: Enigmatic Titan

The biography of gilded age venture capitalist, who served as chairman of The New York Times, president of New York Edison, and founded the artist’s colony Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York, which has hosted generations of America's greatest writers, artists, critics and musicians. Authored by David S. Worth, the book was commissioned to accompany the New York Public Library exhibition “Yaddo: Making American Culture.”