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T.J. Stiles

Recent Articles by T.J. Stiles

On the first great financial journalist—and what he got wrong, at the "Echoes" blog at Bloomberg, published February 22, 2012.
On the early history of insider trading on Wall Street, at the "Echoes" blog at Bloomberg, published January 6, 2012.
Book Reviews by T.J. Stiles

Review of Geoffrey Ward's A Disposition to be Rich, published in the New York Times Book Review, July 1, 2012.
Review of David Maraniss's Barack Obama: The Story, published in the Washington Post, June 4, 2012.
Review of Jennet Conant's A Covert Affair, published in the Washington Post on May 6, 2011.
Review of H.W. Brands's American Colossus, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, October 30, 2010
Review of Ron Chernow's Washington: A Life, published in the Washington Post, October 24, 2010
Review of Niall Ferguson's High FInancier, published in the Washington Post, July 11, 2010
"Rescuing the Stacks," an article in defense of the New York Public Library (and all libraries), published in the New York Observer, June 15, 2010
"Five Best Books" essay, on five of the best books on moguls, published in the Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2010
Review of Nathaniel Philbrick's The Last Stand, published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, May 8, 2010
Review of Anne C. Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, November 1, 2009
Review of David E. Hoffman's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Dead Hand, published in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, October 11, 2009
Video and Audio Clips

Video link: "James v. Ames," a talk given at the Northfield Historical Society on June 16, 2011, about the James/​Younger gang's failed Northfield bank robbery
Video Link: Interview with BBC America, April 27, 2010
"Age of the Titans": A panel on the nineteenth century at the Texas Book Festival, October 16, 2010, with H.W. Brands and James McGrath Morris, on CSPAN's BookTV
Video of the Chancellor's Lecture at Vanderbilt University, September 29, 2010, titled "The Commodore's Patriotism: Cornelius Vanderbilt's Path to the Founding of Vanderbilt University"
Video of a Lecture at Washington University Law School, St. Louis, September 16, 2010: "The Tyrants of Modern Society': Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Rise of the Modern Corporation and Modern Capitalism"
Video of T.J. Stiles at Chicago's Printer's Row Lit Fest, June 13, 2010.
T.J. Stiles interviewed by Lewis Lapham for "The World in Time" on Bloomberg Radio—one of the best concise summaries of The First Tycoon.
An extended video interview with T.J. Stiles at Bigthink.com, about writing biography and the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Audio file of T.J. Stiles's talk at the Louisville Free Public Library.


T.J. Stiles's lecture at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, on Cornelius Vanderbilt's role in the making of American political culture.