Fortune's Children
Subtitle: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Publisher: Sphere Books Limited
Published: October 1, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780747406204
Subjects: Biography: general; USA; 20th century; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900
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.