(I love the quote from The New York Sun “And old sea captain who knew him well used to say it was fortunate that the Commodore was not educated for had he been he would have been a god.”) He was able to grasp economic abstractions that would come to define what the market became long before anyone else. history (world history?) then our dear Commodore. Stiles argues that nobody has affected more economic change in U.S. The First Tycoon chronicles "The Commodore's" uber-capitalistic rise to power first in the steam boat industry, and most famously (maybe notoriously?) in railroads. He took the time to organize over 100 pages of footnotes at the end of the thing the least I owe him is a well-organized book review.ġ00 pages of notes! How do you research that? Stiles leaves no doubt that he developed a certain affection for Vanderbilt in all his research, and how could he not? I feel like Jim Halpert and Ben Folds are my friends because I hang out with them so much, but Stiles ends up really KNOWING Vanderbilt. Stiles - the author of this book - won't be offended. Right now I don't even have the desire to attempt a Binksian or Sorensenian book review so I'll just ramble and pretend T.J. comprehensive book deserves a comprehensive review, and yet I barely had the fortitude to make it through the reading.
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