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Cornelius Vanderbilt was a colossal figure. By wise investment, shrewd manipulation, and the use of his fists, he died the wealthiest man in the United States. His life was an epic of the steam age. Here, in this essay by the eminent historian Bernard A. Weisberger, is his extraordinary story.