Fortune's Children
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: February 20, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780688103866
Subjects: Wealth; United States; Historical - U.S.; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Upper classes; Rich & Famous; Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous; General; Biography; History
First sentence: That Wednesday morning, May 10, 1876, reporters from every New York City newspaper gathered in front of the townhouse at 10 Washington Place, waiting for some sign that eighty-two-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Commodore as he was called, had passed away.