“For the Vanderbilts lived in a day when flaunting one’s money was not only accepted but celebrated. What may have started as playacting, as dressing up as dukes and princesses for fancy dress balls in fairytale palaces, soon developed into a firm conviction that they were indeed the new American nobility.”
― Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
― Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
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