The Vanderbilts And The Story Of Their Fortune Classic Reprint

Author : William Augustus Croffut
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265370629
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune (Classic Reprint) written by William Augustus Croffut and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune This is a history of the Vanderbilt family, with a record of their vicissitudes, and a chronicle of the method by which their wealth has been acquired. It is confidently put forth as a work which should fall into the hands of boys and young men - of all who aspire to become Cap tains of Industry or leaders of their fellows in the sharp and wholesome competitions of life. In preparing these pages, the author has had an am bition, not merely to give a biographical picture of sire, son, and grandsons and descendants, but to consider their relation to society, to measure the significance and the influence of their fortune, to ascertain where their money came from, to inquire whether others are poorer because they are rich, whether they are hindering or promoting civilization, whether they and such as they are impediments to the welfare of the human race. A correct answer to these questions will solve half of the problems which most eagerly beset this generation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Augustus Croffut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by William Augustus Croffut and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Croffut William Augustus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780243804368
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by Croffut William Augustus and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. A. Croffut
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781494131050
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by W. A. Croffut and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1886 Edition.

Author : William Augustus Croffut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by William Augustus Croffut and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062288377
Total Pages : 544 pages
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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 : W. a. (William Augustus) 1835 Croffut
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781372069659
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book VANDERBILTS & THE STORY OF THE written by W. a. (William Augustus) 1835 Croffut and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : fl. 1650). Vanderbilt family (Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt
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Total Pages : 310 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune written by fl. 1650). Vanderbilt family (Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Augustus Croffut
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ISBN 13 : 9781293946145
Total Pages : 362 pages
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Download or read book The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune - Scholar's Choice Edition written by William Augustus Croffut and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Anderson Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006296464X
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Vanderbilt written by Anderson Cooper and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When 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. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.