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

Interview with T.J. Stiles

July 21, 2010

Tags: T.J. Stiles, biography, writing, history, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Commodore Vanderbilt

The website Big Think has posted an interview in which I discuss the art of writing biography, research, the character of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the fraught question of the uses of history for the present.



You can find the webpage, with shorter excerpts, here:
http://bigthink.com/tjstiles.

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