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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on April 9, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(2):417-419; doi:10.1093/es/khp010
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Edward J. Renehan, Jr. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Edward J. Renehan, Jr. Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. New York: Basic Books, 2007. xx + 364 pp. ISBN 0-465-00255-2, $27.50 (cloth).

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Edward J. Renehan, Jr. has written a biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt for the general reader. This volume's audience is not meant to be members of the historical profession nor business historians in particular. This is the first full-length biography of Vanderbilt since Wheaton J. Lane's Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of the Steam Age (1942). As Renehan correctly notes, a reappraisal of Cornelius Vanderbilt is overdue. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

M. Stephen Salmon

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