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25. Just finished Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Thu Oct 8, 2015, 10:45 PM

Oct 2015

Extraordinary stories of the astounding extravagance of the Gilded Age and the dissipation of an enormous family fortune.

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