Jerry E. Patterson

The saga of the Vanderbilt family from their rise from a $100investment in a railroad, to controlling one of the largest railway empires in the country. Along the line there were many who built up the family fortune, but also way too many who wildly spent money on houses, horses and yachts . In the end, when the railways collapsed under the onslaught of the private motor car and air travel, there wasn’t much left. Sic transit gloria