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Fortune's children
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Arthur T Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt - "The Commodore" - was born in 1794. At the age 16 he borrowed $100 from his mother to buy a boat and began a ferry service to Manhattan. By the time of his death in 1877 he had built a far-flung steamship and railroad empire and accumulated an estate worth over $100 million. The bulk of his money went to his son, William, ...
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Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt
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The rags-to-riches-to-rags story of four generations of the once fabulously wealthy American Vanderbilt family, from the birth of their founder, the commodore (Cornelius Vanderbilt) in 1794. It follows the fortunes and failures of the colourful members of the family and traces the dissipation of their immense fortune amidst the extravagance of ...
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Gardening in Eden: The Joys of Planning and Tending a Garden
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Arthur T Vanderbilt, II
Vanderbilt began gardening later in life but gradually became hooked. Here he describes--often humorously--his experiences working his northern New Jersey half-acre. He also includes quotes from literature on the subject of gardening.
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Gardening in Eden: Seasons in a Suburban Garden
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"Though an old man," Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello, "I am but a young gardener." Every gardener is. In "Gardening in Eden, " we enter Arthur Vanderbilt's small enchanted world of the garden, where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color, where a catbird comes to eat raisins from one's ...
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Treasure Wreck
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Arthur T Vanderbilt
When the pirate ship Whydah went down in a violent storm just off the coast of Massachusetts in 1717, she took a huge treasury of stolen gold and jewels with her. Pieces of eight have continued to wash ashore since that ill-fated voyage, luring treasure seekers and undersea salvage experts. Here is the story of this plunder, of the pirates who ...
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Treasure Wreck: The Fortunes and Fate of the Pirate Ship Whydah
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The Making of a Bestseller: From Author to Reader
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An exploration of that mysterious place in publishing where art and commerce either clash, mesh, or both. Along the way, a wide range of authors - from the literary greats to today's commercial superstars -editors, agents and publishers share their thoughts, insights and experiences: what inspires writers? (John Steinbeck, for example, wrote every ...
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The Challenge of Law Reform
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Law School: Briefing for a Legal Education
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Men and Measures in the Law: Five Lectures Delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation at the University of Michigan, April 1948
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Men and measures in the law: five lectures delivered ... at the Univ. of Michigan
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Jersey justice : three hundred years of the New Jersey judiciary
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Carla Vivian Bello, Arthur T. Vanderbilt
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Minimum standards of judicial administration : a survey of the extent to which the standards of the American Bar Association for improving the administration of justice have been accepted throughout the country
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Arthur T. Vanderbilt, American Bar Association, National Conference of Judicial Councils
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Studying law; selections from the writings of Albert J. Beveridge, John Maxcy Zane, Munroe Smith [and others] ...
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Arthur T. Vanderbilt (Editor)
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Cases and other materials on modern procedure and judicial administration.
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An Introduction to the Study of Law
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Judges and jurors : their functions, qualifications, and selection
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