Full name: Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Author: Arthur T. Vanderbilt, II Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780062224064 0062224069

For fans of Downton Abbey, a real-life American version of the Crawley family--Fortune's Children is an enthralling true story that recreates the drama, splendor, and wealth of the legendary Vanderbilts.Vanderbilt: The very name is synonymous with the Gilded Age. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after his death, no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's richest people. Written by descendant Arthur T. Vanderbilt II, Fortune's Children traces the dramatic and amazingly colorful history of this great American family, from the rise of industrialist and philanthropist Cornelius Vanderbilt to the fall of his progeny--wild spendthrifts whose profligacy bankrupted a vast inheritance. Similar books: The Richest Woman in America by Janet Wallach 100 People Who Changed America by Russell Freedman The Roosevelts by Peter Collier Henry Clay by David S. Heidler Clarence Darrow by John A. Farrell American Jezebel by Eve LaPlante Bobby Kennedy by Chris Matthews Woodrow Wilson by John Milton Cooper Jr. Mistress of the Elgin Marbles by Susan Nagel Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami Samuel Adams by Ira Stoll Abigail Adams by Woody Holton Alexander Hamilton by Richard Brookhiser Archie and Amelie by Donna M. Lucey Capone by Laurence Bergreen