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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon

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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon - Willis, Mirron (Read by), and Covington, Howard E, and Company, The Biltmore
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This is the story of Biltmore Estate's transformation from a financial drain for George Vanderbilt and his heirs -- banker David Rockefeller called it aa white elephant -- into an unparalled example of private preservation and the most important working asset of the western North Carolina travel industry. No one gave Biltmore's future a chance, but George Vanderbilt's grandson, William A. V. Cecil, persevered over thirty-five years, and his determination, creativity and vision produced an enterprise whose profits he used to ...

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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon 2020, Tantor Audio

ISBN-13: 9781665193481

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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon 2020, Tantor Audio

ISBN-13: 9781665193474

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