The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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“You see, my son, there are some disreputable fellows around this town who have got hold of a railroad somehow or another, and are trying to run it.… To make it a little respectable they talked about a ‘war’ they'd hatched up with the Central, so as to make folks think that it amounted to something; but there's nothing in it,