He epitomized the Jacksonian ideal of every man being free to compete and rise on his merits, and that ideal remains a bright thread in the fabric of American thought. Yet his unprecedented wealth—and with it, unprecedented power—signaled that inequalities were exploding in size with the new corporate economy.
While Being a self made man, CV also reached a stratospheric height that distorted his connection to family. He subordinated his family, some of them resented it, others prospered
