![]() ![]() His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. rks of Nonfiction of 2021When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America. ![]() New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty-his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Post's Notable Wo. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Trade Paperback / Paperback) ![]()
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