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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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William Gibbons and the War Between Aristocrats and Cultured Men
Vanderbilt disdain the delicacy of cultured men so there's a huge huge war going on like a cultural war at the time between aristocrats old money families and these new you know self-made people. Gibbons was a real pain the butt to deal with for everybody else he says Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt was the same thing for everybody else but they they were it looked like they were both highly ambitious people that they were destined to clash and they never did. It's almost like they had like a father-son relationship I would say because Vanderbilt respected like the mind and the shrewdness of Gibbons.
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