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(0)Katherine Howe
Author
Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xix, 294 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
From a 1597 manual for witch hunters by King James to court papers from the Salem witch trials, primary source documents provide historical accounts of accused witches from medieval Europe to early-nineteenth century America.
