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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Author | : Steven H. Gittelman,Emily Gittelman |
Publsiher | : Hamilton Books |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780761855071 |
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At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own life. How is it that this wraith, this gluttonous, opulent youth, could undergo an entire change of character in his last few moments? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred’s journey from philanderer to hero in this incredible, never-before-told story of the hero of the Lusitania.
The Vanderbilt Legend
Author | : Wayne Andrews |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UVA:X000378776 |
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Legacies of the Turf
Author | : Edward L. Bowen |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2023-05-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781493079414 |
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This book traces the careers of the men and women who bred the most outstanding Thoroughbreds of the 20th century.
The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes
Author | : Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Capitalists and financiers |
ISBN | : WISC:89067937748 |
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Picture of an affluent era when the family amassed a fabulous fortune through domination of the shipping world and absolute control of railroads.
Unsinkable
Author | : Daniel Allen Butler |
Publsiher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Shipwrecks |
ISBN | : 081171814X |
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"This is a history 'of the disaster and aftermath, drawing on first-person accounts and solid secondary sources.'" Libr J.
Vanderbilt
Author | : Anderson Cooper,Katherine Howe |
Publsiher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-09-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062964649 |
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New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by “the Commodore,” subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.
Bromo Seltzer King
Author | : Bob Luke |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781476636870 |
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Captain Isaac "Ike" Emerson, riding high on the international success of his patent, Bromo-Seltzer, lived a storied life of opulence. This first biography of the "Bromo-Seltzer King" traces his path from North Carolina farm boy to Baltimore-based multimillionaire with a penchant for lavish entertaining. Emerson is presented as an entrepreneur, patriot, civic leader, sportsman, and philanthropist. He was a phenom in his era, and this book, drawing from archival records, newspapers of the day, and interviews with descendants, details the ups and downs of his complex and indulgent life.
Administrative Decisions and Opinions of a General Nature and Opinions in Individual Lusitania Claims and Other Cases
Author | : Mixed Claims Commission, United States and Germany |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105113721356 |
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