Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Acclaimed historian Edward J. Renehan, Jr.-author of Dark Genius of Wall Street -draws upon previously unreleased documents to deliver the definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history. '[A] portrait of a brilliantly successful, genuinely despicable man.'-Kirkus Reviews