The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (158 page)
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Authors: T. J. Stiles
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A Note About the Author
T. J. Stiles is the author of
Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War
, winner of the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize. He has written for the
New York Times Book Review, Smithsonian
, and
Salon.com
, among other publications, and held the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in the Presidio of San Francisco with his wife and son. For more information about T. J. Stiles and
The First Tycoon
, see
www.tjstiles.com
.
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Copyright © 2009 by T. J. Stiles
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stiles, T. J.
The first tycoon: the epic life of Cornelius Vanderbilt / T. J. Stiles.—1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978–0-307–27155-6
1. Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794–1877. 2. Businessmen—United States—Biography.
3. Millionaires—United States—Biography. 4. Railroads—United States—History
—19th century. 5. Steamboats—United States—History—19th century. 1. Title
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275.v23s85 2009 973.5092—ddc22
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