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'The First Tycoon'

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San Francisco-based author T.J. Stiles joins the program to discuss his book “The First Tycoon,” about Cornelius Vanderbilt. This titan of business rose from humble beginnings to help transform the nation with steamships and locomotives.

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T.J. Stiles, author of "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt," which won the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction

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