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⚡️Book Title : Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
⚡Book Author : Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
⚡Page : Paperback
⚡Published February 20th 1991 by William Morrow Paperbacks (first published 1989)
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt - 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.
Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
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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