Fortunes Children

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062288377
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Children written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0688103863
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Children written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1991-02-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt
Publisher : William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780062224064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Children written by Arthur T. Vanderbilt and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-12-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street Journal Bestseller For fans of Downton Abbey, a real-life American version of the Crawley family—Fortune's Children is an enthralling true story that recreates the drama, splendor, and wealth of the legendary Vanderbilts. 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.

Author : Daniel Livesay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469634449
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of Uncertain Fortune written by Daniel Livesay and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By tracing the largely forgotten eighteenth-century migration of elite mixed-race individuals from Jamaica to Great Britain, Children of Uncertain Fortune reinterprets the evolution of British racial ideologies as a matter of negotiating family membership. Using wills, legal petitions, family correspondences, and inheritance lawsuits, Daniel Livesay is the first scholar to follow the hundreds of children born to white planters and Caribbean women of color who crossed the ocean for educational opportunities, professional apprenticeships, marriage prospects, or refuge from colonial prejudices. The presence of these elite children of color in Britain pushed popular opinion in the British Atlantic world toward narrower conceptions of race and kinship. Members of Parliament, colonial assemblymen, merchant kings, and cultural arbiters--the very people who decided Britain's colonial policies, debated abolition, passed marital laws, and arbitrated inheritance disputes--rubbed shoulders with these mixed-race Caribbean migrants in parlors and sitting rooms. Upper-class Britons also resented colonial transplants and coveted their inheritances; family intimacy gave way to racial exclusion. By the early nineteenth century, relatives had become strangers.

Author : Yuko Tsushima
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241335043
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of Fortune written by Yuko Tsushima and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A terrific novel' Angela Carter Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her. Combining the beauty and unease of a dream, this haunting novel is an unflinching portrayal of a woman's innermost fears and desires. 'As relevant today as when it was published ... at once powerfully uplifting and achingly sad' Japan Times

Author : Christopher Maurer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578065394
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Favorite Child written by Christopher Maurer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new biography, Maurer explores the troubled life of one of America's most prolific and idiosyncratic artists.

Author : Suzanne Selfors
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0316040959
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Magic Farm written by Suzanne Selfors and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything changes when Isabelle discovers that she is the heir to Fortune's Farm, a wondrous place where the final remnants of magic grow. For as long as she can remember, ten-year-old Isabelle has dreamed of escaping her home in Runny Cove, a gray village where it never stops raining, and where she is forced to work at Mr. Supreme's Umbrella Factory. Journeying across the ocean, Isabelle finds a sunny new home filled with magical delights, including Curative Cherry trees that can heal all kinds of sickness, and Floating Fronds that make her fly. But Isabelle still feels the call to return to Runny Cove and use the secrets of the farm to stop the rain. With the magic of Fortune's Farm behind her, will Isabell be strong enough to bring back the sun and stop the despicable Mr. Supreme? From the author of Smells Like Dog comes a magical journey about loyalty, family, and the magic within.

Author : Pamela Simpson
Publisher : Fanfare
ISBN 13 : 9780553294248
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Child written by Pamela Simpson and published by Fanfare. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Twenty years after she mysteriously disappeared, shipping heiress Christina Fortune returns to gain control of the family business, but she must first convince her family of her identity."--

Author : Leonore Davidoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135144052
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Fortunes written by Leonore Davidoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history. Published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, its influence in the field continues to be extensive. It has cast new light on the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 1780 and 1850. This revised edition contains a substantial new introduction, placing the original survey in its historiographical context. Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall evaluate the readings their text has received and broaden their study by taking into account recent developments and shifts in the field. They apply current perceptions of history to their original project, and see new motives and meanings emerge that reinforce their argument.

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : LUNA
ISBN 13 : 1426814828
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortune's Fool written by Mercedes Lackey and published by LUNA. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seventh daughter of the Sea King, Ekaterina is more than a pampered princess-she's also the family spy. Which makes her the perfect emissary to check out interesting happenings in the neighboring kingdom…and nothing interests her more than Sasha, the seventh son of the king of Belrus. Ekaterina suspects he's far from the fool people think him. But before she can find out what lies beneath his facade, she is kidnapped! Trapped in a castle at the mercy of a possessive Jinn, Ekaterina knows her chances of being found are slim. Now fortune, a fool and a paper bird are the only things she can count on-along with her own clever mind and intrepid heart.…