Fortune's Children Customer Reviews

Interesting read, going East in the spring planning on a visit to Newport and seeing all the homes mentioned.

Interesting insightful look at the whole Vanderbilt family. It is both joyous and sad at the same. I wholeheartedly recommend this to anyone who is looking for more detailed information on the whole Gilded Age as well as the prominent families that created it.

A concise , detailed history of American aristocracy.

Written so well, so smooth, and with such precise

detail, that it is one long splendid dream of the gilded age. Extremely interesting, informative, and haunting.

The book is well written. The author doesn't shy away from the unpleasant aspects of his family's history. It is a little hard to justify spending the time to read about these people. They are almost entirely frivolous, spendthrift characters after generation two. It is a window into a different time and society, and pretty disgusting really. So basically, a lot of money was made by a few Vanderbilt's and it was wasted and almost entirely gone in 5 or 6 generations.

Fabulous in so many ways!