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Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of
the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor
and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine
Howe. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction 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.
The number one New York Times bestselling authors
of Vanderbilt return with another riveting
history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and
how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of
the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of
ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when
German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United
States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall,
was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name
occupied a unique place in American society. The
family fortune, first
made by a beaver trapping business that grew into
an empire, was then amplified by holdings
in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing
generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New
York society and inserted themselves into political and
cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss
on the Titanic, one of many shocking and
unexpected twists in the family’s story. In this
unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring
black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York
Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper
and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of
the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to
mean in America—offering a window onto the making of America
itself.
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.
From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal,
extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has
witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond.
"Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a
rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of
things is suddenly turned upside down, whether it's a natural
disaster, a civil war, or a heated political battle. Over the last
year, few people have witnessed more scenes of chaos and conflict
than Anderson Cooper, whose groundbreaking coverage on CNN has
become the touchstone of twenty-first century journalism. This book
explores in a very personal way the most important - and most
dangerous - crises of our time, and the surprising impact they have
had on his life. From the devastating tsunami in South Asia to the
suffering Niger, and ultimately Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans,
Cooper shares his own experiences of traversing the globe, covering
the world's most astonishing stories. In his first book, that
passion communicates itself through a rich fabric of memoir and
reportage, reflection and first-person narrative. Unflinching and
utterly engrossing, this is the story of an extraordinary year in a
reporter's life.
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