The author credits him with being farsighted enough to envision the deeply hidden architecture of capitalism and to understand the importance of transport, the source of his earliest successes, in the new world system. Popular historian Stiles ( Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, 2002) writes that although he was derided as an arriviste in his own time, “illiterate & boorish,” Vanderbilt was actually a man of much substance. A rousing life of the legendary robber baron who was in all the right places at the right time.Ĭornelius Vanderbilt-called the Commodore in his day-rose from a common birth, the child of a Staten Island farmer, to control one of the largest fortunes in world history.
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