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Vanderbilt - The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
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Vanderbilt - The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty (Hardcover)
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New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper
teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist
Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary
American dynasty-his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. One of the
Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 When
eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's
small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of
the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he
would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for
money, build two empires-one in shipping and another in
railroads-that would make him the richest man in America. His
staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in
1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though
his son Billy doubled the money left by "the Commodore," subsequent
generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways
of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of
The Breakers-the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode
Island, that Cornelius's grandson and namesake had built-the family
would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.
Now, the Commodore's great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper,
joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his
legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe
breathe life into the ancestors who built the family's empire,
basked in the Commodore's wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became
synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society.
Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish
drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer
palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to
modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and
tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a
unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially
American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly
captures.
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