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THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
de Stiles, T.J
- Usado
- as new
- First
- Estado
- As new
- ISBN 10
- 1400031745
- ISBN 13
- 9781400031740
- Librería
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Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Vintage books, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Trade paperback. As new. NY: Vintage Books, c2010. first printing. 719pp., index, notes, bibliography, black and white photographs. 8vo. Uncreased spine, as new unread trade paperback.
Sinopsis
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism.Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington's presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation's largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad empire. 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. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation--in fact, as T. J. Stiles elegantly argues, Vanderbilt did more than perhaps any other individual to create the economic world we live in today.In The First Tycoon, Stiles offers the first complete, authoritative biography of this titan, and the first comprehensive account of the Commodore's personal life. It is a sweeping, fast-moving epic, and a complex portrait of the great man. Vanderbilt, Stiles shows, embraced the philosophy of the Jacksonian Democrats and withstood attacks by his conservative enemies for being too competitive. He was a visionary who pioneered business models. He was an unschooled fistfighter who came to command the respect of New York's social elite. And he was a father who struggled with a gambling-addicted son, a husband who was loving yet abusive, and, finally, an old man who was obsessed with contacting the dead.The First Tycoon is the exhilarating story of a man and a nation maturing together: the powerful account of a man whose life was as epic and complex as American history itself.From the Hardcover edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 90383
- Título
- THE FIRST TYCOON: THE EPIC LIFE OF CORNELIUS VANDERBILT
- Autor
- Stiles, T.J
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Trade paperback
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition, First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 1400031745
- ISBN 13
- 9781400031740
- Editorial
- Vintage books
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2010
- Palabras clave
- Biography
Términos de venta
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Books are returnable for a refund
if not as described.
Sobre el vendedor
Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Columbia, Missouri
Sobre Columbia Books, Inc. ABAA/ILAB
30,000 books in stock, with special emphasis on gardening,
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
art and textiles, poetry, children\'s and illustrated, Missouriana, antiquarian books.
Prints and maps are stocked as well.
Established 1977, member ABAA/ILAB
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