Vanderbilt, Cornelius. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002

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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

Vanderbilt, Cornelius


An American business leader of the nineteenth century; the founder of the Vanderbilt fortune. The family’s money derived first from shipping and later from railroads.	1
‡ His son, William Henry Vanderbilt, summed up the Vanderbilt business philosophy in his famous comment, “The public be damned!”	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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