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Commodore : The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt - Edward Renehan

Commodore

The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

By: Edward Renehan

Paperback | 14 April 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Armed with a trove of previously unreleased archives, Edward J. Renehan Jr. offers a compelling portrait of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who built large shipping and rail enterprises into cornerstones of the American economy, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes the world has ever known. This is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on American business was unsurpassed in his day -- or any other.

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"Renehan sets out to be neither 'prosecutor nor defence attorney', but succeeds in demonstrating from contemporary sources that Gould's misdeeds have been much exaggerated over a century of telling... Renehan's meticulous portrait does (Jay Gould) proud." The Spectator"

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