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The First Tycoon
â At long last a biography worthy of the Commodore, meticulously researched, superbly written, and filled with original insights.â -Maury Klein, author of The Life and Legend of Jay Gouldâ T.J. Stiles writes with the magisterial sweep of a great historian and the keen psychological insight of a great biographer. The First Tycoon is the fullest, most perceptive chronicle ever written of the life and times of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the epitome of unfettered, winner-take-all capitalism. With panache and admirable ease, Stiles maps the financial and political currents on which Vanderbilt buccaneered and shows that it was Vanderbilt, more than anyone else, who enabled business to evolve into Big Business.â -Patricia Oâ Toole, author of When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White Houseâ T.J. Stiles has given us a balanced and absorbing biography of this colorful and often ruthless entrepreneur, the first of the â robber baronsâ who transformed the American economy in the nineteenth century.â -James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Eraâ The First Tycoon is a brilliant exposition of the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt and the entrepreneurial environment that he shaped. Readers will look at Grand Central Station and much else in American life with fresh eyes.â -Joyce Appleby, author of The Restless Revolution: A History of Capitalismâ The definitive biography of Commodore Vanderbilt. Both as portrait of an American original and as a book that brings to life an important slice of American history long neglected, this is biography at its very best. A magnificent achievement.â -Arthur Vanderbilt II, author of Fortuneâ s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbiltâ Superbly written and researched . . . Worthy of its subject.â -The Economistâ Shrewd . . . As he did in his much-acclaimed Jesse James, Stiles limns the meteoric career of an impetuous spirit. Rich in detail, the narrative reveals much about not only the unschooled genius . . . but also the national culture he helped transform . . . A landmark study.â -Starred review, Booklistâ Rousing . . . An exemplary biography.â -Starred review, Kirkusâ Thoroughly researched . . . Stiles meticulously separates myths from facts in a book that compares favorably with David Nasawâ s Andrew Carnegie . . . Dispassionately revising our portrait of Vanderbilt, Stiles has produced a work highly recommended.â -Starred review, Library JournalFrom the Hardcover edition.
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