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The First Tycoon

The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

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The First Tycoon

Auteur(s): T.J. Stiles
Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
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 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.©2009 T.J. Stiles; (P)2009 Random House Affaires Amériques Développement commercial et entrepreneuriat Entrepreneurship Histoire Professionnels et universitaires États-Unis Histoire américaine Chemin de fer Âge d’or New York Capitalisme Amérique Latine Socialisme Guerre Biographie Fiscalité Abraham Lincoln
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This is the first of three books I wanted to read about some of the first big moneymakers in North America (Vanderbilt, Rockefeller and JP Morgan). I was hoping to find some long lost knowledge about doing business the "old-fashioned way". Well, it's just the same old story: hard work, supplemented with a little cheating, conniving, sabotage and vicious competitiveness. It was a looong book, but thorough and pretty interesting. Lots of info about the family dynamics, too. The narration was well done. I listened at 1.15 and it was fine. I recommend it if the topic interests you.

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The longest audiobook I've listened to yet, but one that I couldn't put down.
You're left in awe by what one man can accomplish in his lifetime.

An epic life indeed

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Its so amazing that things he did for the first time are so deeply entrenched in our world still in 2023!!

Amazing story told very well.

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