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The First Tycoon is the definitive biography on Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt. It took T.J. Stiles 7 years to research and write this biography and he did a incredible job. He found material not covered in other biographies and also put to rest rumors that seem to be far fetched from other authors. The Commodore lived a long life he was born May 27, 1794 and died on January 4, 1877 at the age of 82 years old. It was especially long when you consider during his generation most people lived to be 40 years old. T.J. Stiles does a great job shaping the story of not only Vanderbilt but America, politics, and capitalism.
