Fortune's Children - Vanderbilt, Arthur T
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With the popularity of Downton Abbey, fans are dying to know more about the splendid familys of the time. This look at the Vanderbilts shows a real life American version of the Crawley Family. So much drama and money it¿s hard to believe it¿s non-fiction!
Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells…mehr

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With the popularity of Downton Abbey, fans are dying to know more about the splendid familys of the time. This look at the Vanderbilts shows a real life American version of the Crawley Family. So much drama and money it¿s hard to believe it¿s non-fiction!
Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Fortune's Children tells the dramatic story of all the amazingly colorful spenders who dissipated such a vast inheritance.
Autorenporträt
Arthur T. Vanderbilt II is the author of many books, among them Changing Law, a biography of his grandfather Arthur T. Vanderbilt, which won the American Bar Association's Scribes Award. He practices law in New Jersey.