The First Tycoon_ The Epic Life Of Cornelius Vanderbilt Part 13

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A Note About the Author

T. J. Stiles is the author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, winner of the Amba.s.sador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He has written for the Book Prize. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review, Smithsonian, and Salon.com, among other publications, and held the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives in the Presidio of San Francisco with his wife and son. For more information about T. J. Stiles and The First Tyc.o.o.n The First Tyc.o.o.n, see www.tjstiles.com.