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Using previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. narrates the engaging life of Cornelius Vanderbilt: willful progenitor of modern American business. Vanderbilt made his primary bundle of money building ferry and cargo routes for sailing vessels. Then he transferred into steamboats and railroads. With the New York Central, Vanderbilt founded the nation’s first major included rail system, linking NY with Boston, Montreal, Chicago, and St. Louis. At the same time, he played a key role in creating NY as the financial middle of the United States. When he died in 1877, Vanderbilt still left a fortune that, in today’s dollars, would dwarf that of even Invoice Gates. Off Wall membrane Street, Vanderbilt was a hard-drinking egotist and whoremonger without manners or charity. He disinherited the majority of his numerous children and received an editorial rebuke from Make Twain for his insufficient public providing. Commodore sheds startling new light on many areas of Vanderbilt’s business and private life including, most notably, the revelation that advanced level syphilis marred his previous years. This is the definitive biography of a man whose effect on North american life and business towers over-all who implemented him.
