Fortune's children the fall of the house of Vanderbilt
An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and self-indulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Morrow,
[1989]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | An account of a bygone world of privilege, money, power, and self-indulgence set in monumental mansions and country estates. Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of industrialist and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny--wild spendthrifts whose profligacy bankrupted a vast inheritance. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 496 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-481) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780062224064 0062224069 9780688072797 0688072798 9780747406204 0747406200 9780688103866 0688103863 |
