Fortune's Children

Fortune's Children

The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Arthur T Vanderbilt Ii
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Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.

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Rich & FamousBiography & AutobiographyHistoricalAmericanLiterary CriticismAll Other NonfictionPersonal Memoirs
Pages544
Released2013
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN9780062288370
SellerHarperCollins

About the author(s)

Arthur T. Vanderbilt II is the author of many books, among them Changing Law, a biography of his grandfather Arthur T. Vanderbilt, which won the American Bar Association's Scribes Award. He practices law in New Jersey.

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