

Fortune's Children
The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
Author: Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
Narrator: Patrick Lawlor
Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/06/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
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.