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 Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:41 pm Post subject: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt |
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Latest biography on the Commodore. Review from the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/books/29garn.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
An excerpt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/books/chapter-first-tycoon.html?ref=books
| Quote: | | Everyone who listened as Lord stood to make his opening argument knew just how great the stakes were. “the house of vanderbilt,” the Times headlined its story the next morning. “a railroad prince’s fortune. the heirs contesting the will. . . . a battle over $100,000,000.” The only item in all that screaming type that would have surprised readers was the Times’s demotion of Vanderbilt to “prince,” since the press usually dubbed him the railroad king. His fortune towered over the American economy to a degree difficult to imagine, even at the time. If he had been able to sell all his assets at full market value at the moment of his death, in January of that year, he would have taken one out of every twenty dollars in circulation, including cash and demand deposits. |
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