“Cornelius Vanderbilt is a man of power, unquestionably,” the Chicago Tribune wrote. Vanderbilt was the biggest man in the biggest thing in America, the railroads, and so he drew to himself the leading figures in politics, society, and the economy. With each fresh accumulation, its pull grows stronger. Wealth, like mass, exerts a gravitational pull, attracting power, social recognition, and more wealth. In time, all things came to the Commodore.
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