If we tell you we won’t cooperate, will you go away?" Philippe de Montebello asked New York Times bestselling author Michael Gross in 2006. Three years, and no cooperation later, Gross published his new book, "Rogue’s Gallery: The Secret History of Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum" (Broadway Books/Random House).

With 4.6 million visitors a year, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has touched the lives of almost every New Yorker and influenced museums throughout the world. It is, bar none, the world’s greatest encyclopedic museum. Members of New York’s legal, political and social elites have participated in the creation, growth and developments of the Met.

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