![]() ![]() ![]() “Vanderbilt was many things, not all of themĪdmirable,” T. But like other corporate giants of his era and ours, he saw no reason to apologize for manufacturing and managing commodities everyone wanted and needed. Vanderbilt was the richest man in 19th-century America at his death in 1877, he possessed, at least on paper, one-ninth of all the American currency He soothed and the Grand Central Terminal he constructed with his own millions, that was their fault, not his. If Americans were not grateful for the many steamships he built, the major railroad lines he integrated into a common system, the stock market panics Stiles: The Mogul Who Built Corporate America (April 29, 2009)Ĭolum McCann Wins National Book Award (November 19, 2009)Ĭommodore Vanderbilt’s Life (January 5, 1877) (pdf)Ĭornelius Vanderbilt spent little of his long life fretting over his image. Related Excerpt: ‘The First Tycoon’ (April 29, 2009) ![]()
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