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THE GILDED LEDGER Book 2

By Augusta Creeley · 4 parts · 14 h 58 min · English

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New York, 1794 to 1879. A Staten Island boatman with no schooling and no capital spends fifty years learning that the cheapest way to own a route is to make owning it unbearable for everyone else. He runs steamboats at fares that cannot pay, takes money to go away, opens a passage across Nicaragua, and at sixty-eight turns to railroads. Twice he corners the stock of a line whose franchise politicians had voted to destroy after selling it short — and both times the law offers them nothing, because the law has not yet decided what a market, or a corporation, is permitted to do. He dies the richest man in America, and his family goes to court over his mind. Covers Cornelius Vanderbilt, New York and Harlem, Hudson River, and New York Central.

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  1. Part 01

    3:30:07

  2. Part 02

    3:58:59

  3. Part 03

    3:32:12

  4. Part 04

    3:56:42

Books in this series

  1. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 24 min

  2. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 2

    4 parts · 14 h 58 min

  3. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 16 min

  4. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 49 min

  5. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 55 min

  6. THE GILDED LEDGER Book 6

    4 parts · 17 h 29 min