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A Companion to The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt

San Francisco Chronicle Profile

December 21, 2009

The San Francisco Chronicle runs a profile of me on Monday, December 21, 2009. You can find it here.

It is an honor to be profiled by the hometown paper. The piece also includes some discussion of my thoughts about writing, which I particularly like.

Comments

  1. March 27, 2010 5:58 PM EDT
    Well, I'd certainly like (no, make that love) to see a film made from this work. Actually, why not let HBO make a series, and do the book and its subject, The Commodore, justice? Not Clint Eastwood, but Ed Harris ccould certainly pull it off.
    - Patrricia Wilkinson

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