The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of four generations of the once fabulously wealthy American Vanderbilt family, from the birth of their founder, the commodore (Cornelius Vanderbilt) in 1794. It follows the fortunes and failures of the colourful members of the family and traces the dissipation of their immense fortune amidst the extravagance of turn-of-the-century New York society, up to the end of world war II.
- ISBN10 0688103863
- ISBN13 9780688103866
- Publish Date 20 February 1991 (first published 1 September 1989)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 23 December 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wmmorrowpb
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 544
- Language English