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  • The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

    The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner) - Paperback

    By T. J. Stiles

About T. J. Stiles Books

T. J. Stiles has held the Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in American History at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, taught at Columbia University, and served as adviser for the PBS series The American Experience. His first book, Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, won the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and was a New York Times Notable Book. The First Tycoon won the National Book Award in 2009. He has written for The New York Times Book Review, Salon.com, Smithsonian, and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in San Francisco.