Stiles previously won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the 2009 National Book Award for Nonfiction for his critically acclaimed book The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt. This kept Virginia bottled up in Norfolk until fleeing Confederates destroyed her. The book was awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History. Cornelius Vanderbiltcalled the Commodore in his dayrose from a common birth, the child of a Staten Island farmer, to control one of the largest fortunes in world history. The Seasonal Read. In 1862, when Washington, D.C., lived in terror of the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia (aka Merrimack ), he pulled his liner Vanderbilt off her run, equipped her to fight, and gave her to the Union government. Stiles RELEASE DATE: ApA rousing life of the legendary robber baron who was in all the right places at the right time. Seward Award for Excellence in Civil War Biography. Readers and Reading: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY. /rebates/2fp2fFirst-Tycoon2fStiles-TJ2fA17063063185&.com252fp252fFirst-Tycoon252fStiles-TJ252fA1706306318526afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. Stiles is the author most recently of Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History, the Spur Award for Best Western Biography, and the William H. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt tags: ego, humility, megalomania, pride 2 likes Like Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons.
The Life of a Boo.: National Book Award 2009 Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, The First Tycoon, Stiles is a serious and accomplished biographer, but he is.
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