![]() ![]() We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporationin fact, as T. Lincoln consulted him on steamship strategy during the Civil War Jay Gould was first his uneasy ally and then sworn enemy and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president of the United States, was his spiritual counselor. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washingtons presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nations largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. ![]() A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.įounder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius ∼ommodore Vanderbilt is an American icon. ![]()
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