Listening to her 2006 review, audiences have heard Lurline bring to life the characters of Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, the story of the family and descendants of Cornelius, "the Commodore," Vanderbilt.
A robber baron who made a fortune in steamships and railroads, the Commodore died in 1877 the world's richest man.
What happened thereafter to the richest family in the world is a remarkable story of money, glamour, and scandal. That peculiarly American dream of rags to riches became for the Commodore Vanderbilt descendents a peculiar nightmare as they discovered what they could do with the money and what the money could do for them.
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