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The Media Center, featuring video and audio files of T.J. Stiles's public appearances and interviews
Dwight Garner on The First Tycoon, New York Times, 04/29/09
"I read eagerly and avidly. This is state-of-the-art biography."
New York Times Book Review (Cover Review of Jesse James), 10/27/02
"So carefully researched, persuasive, and illuminating that it is likely to reshape permanently our understanding of its subject's life and times."

The Vanderblog
A Companion to The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

Best Books of the Year Lists, Updated (Twice)

December 13, 2009

The First Tycoon continues to make best-of-the-year lists. Not all of them, of course. That's OK with me—it's a good sign for books when not all editors can agree on the best books of the year. But my book has done quite well enough. Note the addition of The New Yorker, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Barnes & Noble, and Bloomberg, too.

New York Times Book Critic Dwight Garner's 10 Best Books of the Year
New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year
Financial Times's Best Books of the Year
Barnes & Noble Review's Best Lives of 2009
Amazon.com's 10 Best Biographies and Memoirs
Christian Science Monitor's Best Books of the Year
Boston Globe's 8 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year
The New Yorker's Reviewers' Favorites from 2009
Washington Post's Best Books of 2009
Philadelphia Inquirer's Editors' Picks for Best of the Year
Barnes & Noble's Best Nonfiction of 2009
Bloomberg's Best Business Books of the Year