A steamboat pilot recalls the day in 1807 when he saw a steamboat designed by Robert Fulton, the first on the Hudson River, and the people around him thought it must be some kind of monster.
A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. We see Vanderbilt help to launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation.