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Dwight Garner
on
The First Tycoon
,
New York Times
, 04/29/09
"I read eagerly and avidly. This is state-of-the-art biography."
New York Times Book Review
(Cover Review of
Jesse James
), 10/27/02
"So carefully researched, persuasive, and illuminating that it is likely to reshape permanently our understanding of its subject's life and times."
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Read the Vanderblog, T.J. Stiles's commentary on the art of biography.
Read T.J. Stiles's essay on how his great-great-grandfather left a secret message in Lincoln's watch, at The Atlantic.
T.J. Stiles reviews Michael Wallis's "Billy the Kid" in the New York Times Book Review
T.J. Stiles reviews David Nasaw's "Andrew Carnegie," at Salon.com
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Vintage Books
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Interviews with
T.J. Stiles
Click here to watch T.J. Stiles in conversation with novelist Kevin Baker at the New York Public Library, April 30, 2009.
Click here to listen to T.J. Stiles on the Washington Post Book World podcast.
Go here to listen to T.J. Stiles on NPR's "On Point," May 14, 2009.
Click here to listen to T.J. Stiles in conversation with novelist Kevin Baker, at the New York Public Library, April 30, 2009.
Listen to T.J. Stiles discuss THE FIRST TYCOON with Leonard Lopate on WNYC radio, April 30, 2009.
Go to this page to find an interview with T.J. Stiles on Napa's KVON radio.
Read T.J. Stiles's essay about the secret message his great-great-grandfather left inside Lincoln's watch.
An Interview with T.J. Stiles about THE FIRST TYCOON: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Interesting facts about the life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
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Watch T.J. Stiles discuss Cornelius Vanderbilt and the original Grand Central in the opening segment of "Grand Central," a film in the PBS series "The American Experience." (Quicktime format)
T.J. Stiles in conversation about Jesse James and the Civil War with Milt Rosenberg of WGN Radio, Chicago: Part 1 (RealPlayer file)
T.J. Stiles in conversation about Jesse James and the Civil War with Milt Rosenberg of WGN Radio, Chicago: Part 2 (RealPlayer file)
Click for T.J. Stiles's appearance schedule.
T.J. Stiles
is available to speak about Cornelius Vanderbilt, the making of the American economy, and
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
. Click on the photograph on right for a schedule of upcoming appearances.
