T.J. Stiles’s The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt. Steve Fraser. Share. Copy Link. Facebook. X (Twitter) Bluesky. Pocket. Email. November 11, 2009.

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Sure, Cornelius Vanderbilt was a robber baron who made a fortune off the sweat of immigrant labor and by monopolizing pretty much all travel east of Chicago. Sure, he was uneducated, and his busine… ...

T he history of America’s robber barons can be read about in books or watched in documentaries, ... J.P. Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt still wield to this day.

Cornelius Vanderbilt The Commodore used similar tactics when he moved into the railroad industry during the 1860s, famously sparring with fellow robber barons Jay Gould, James Fisk, and Daniel Drew.

In 1859, Henry J. Raymond, editor of The New York Times, made a comparison between Cornelius Vanderbilt, the railroad tycoon, and “those old German barons, who from their eyries along the Rhine ...

John D. Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie: all American industrial royalty whose names line the streets of America and the pages of our history books. One 150 years later, we face ...

The term "robber baron", first coined by The New York Times in an 1859 article to describe Cornelius Vanderbilt, immediately captured the public imagination, conjuring up images of backroom government ...

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt rarely spoke ill of his close rivals. Not that he had all that many of them. By the early 1870s he was the richest American, owner of the mighty New York Central and ...

The Vanderbilt, Auberge Resorts Collection (from US$1,000 a night), was completed in 1909 in downtown Newport by Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, the third son of family patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt.