the thing about corneil is he takes up a lot of space and the book only because he was an important part vanderbilt's life and not only because there's a lot of material about him but because he was everything is father wasn't. he was physically afflicted. he was morally, the way vanderbilt sought, they didn't have the language for diction than that we do now, he was a real addict so he was boastful, he was a cheat, he was stealing money. >> ended up-- chorus really for some reason became his special patron and friend in horace greeley died with corneil ali cam tens of thousands of dollars. it was a source of great shame and anger for vanderbilt yet he never caught him off completely and his first wife said his attitude towards corneil was stubborn inconsistencies. this relationship, it is important in and of itself but one of the ways in which i got access to the emotional complexity of vanderbilt, a man who because of these great personal capabilities comes across as you know just this kind to dimensional figure, the statue in front of grand central whereas in corneil, these conflictin