The Vanderbilts and their fortunes.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: Vanderbilt family
Description: Picture of an affluent era when the family amassed a fabulous fortune through domination of the shipping world and absolute control of railroads.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CONTENTS; title: I; title: Beginnings; title: 1 THE VAN DER BILTS 13; title: 2 PHEBE HAND 26; title: 3 NEW YORK, 1787 34; title: 4 CORNEEL 42; title: II; title: The Fortune; title: 5 PERIAUGER DAYS 53; title: 6 BELLONA 69; title: 7 THE COMMODORE 85; title: 8 RATE CUTTING AND RAMPAGE 100; title: 9 THE NORTH STAR 116; title: 10 RAILROAD EMPIRE 137; title: 8 Contents; title: III; title: The Vanderbilt Goal; title: 11 NEW YORK CENTRAL 163; title: 1.2 FAST HORSES AND FAST WOMEN 176; title: 13 THE LAST DAYS OF A MOGUL 191; title: 14 DEATH OF THE COMMODORE 204; title: IV; title: The Consolidation and the Weakening; title: 15 THE GREAT WILL FIGHT .217; title: 16 THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED 237; title: 17 THE TRIUMPH OF WILLIE K. 248; title: 18 THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD 260; title: 19 ENTER THE YACHTSMAN 271; title: 20 ENTER THE DUCHESS 285; title: 21 THE MAN WITH THE IRON WILL 298; title: 22 THE UNPLEASANTNESS 310; title: Contents 9; title: V; title: The Fragmentation; title: 23 THE SCHISM DEEPENS 329; title: 24 TRAGEDY ON THE HIGH SEAS 340; title: 25 THE GENERAL AND THE GENTLEMAN 362; title: 26 THE LAST TRIUMVIRATE 377; title: 27 TRIUMPH OF DEATH AND TAXES 392; title: 28 THE END OF THE LINE 401; title: 29 THE SUMMING UP 406; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY 417; title: INDEX 423.