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#54 The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Vanderbilt's Cornelius

The author is touching on something that he touches on a million times in the book which is Vanderbilt. The work himself in a position where no one else could tell him what to do so he had absolute complete control over what he did during the day and how he lived his life was something like that's a fundamental trait. Despite his youth there was nothing childish about the trade he had entered. Cornelius faced bare knuckled competition. On the harbor's waterfront he would find few boundaries to define a fair fight, if no other means of beating a rival would do then a beating it would be.

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