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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.
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A True Account
Katherine Howe
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In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close,
Hannah Masury – bound into service at a waterfront inn since
childhood – is ready to take her life into her own hands.
When William Fly is hanged for piracy in the town
square, the teenage Hannah is watching. Forced to flee for her
life, Hannah disguises herself as a cabin boy and joins the
pitiless crew of another notorious real-life pirate, Edward "Ned"
Low. To earn her freedom and finally change the tide of her own
future, Hannah must hunt down William Fly's lost treasure.
Meanwhile in 1930, Professor Marian Beresford pieces this
bewitching story together, seeing her own lack of freedom reflected
back at her as she watches Hannah's transformation. At the centre
of Hannah Masury’s account, however, lies a centuries-old
mystery that Marian is determined to solve. It soon becomes clear
that Hannah was once just as determined to take this secret to her
grave. A True Account tells the unforgettable, interleaved
stories of two women in different worlds, both shattering the rules
of their own society, both daring to risk everything to
go forge their own adventure.
Connie Goodwin should be spending her summer doing research for her
Ph.D. dissertation in American History. But when her mother asks
her to handle the sale of Connie's grandmother's abandoned home
near Salem, she's compelled to help. It's not long before the time
she's set aside for research is instead spent sorting through her
grandmother's ancient possessions, discovering a woman she barely
knew. One day, while exploring the dusty bookshelves in the study,
Connie discovers a key hidden within an old bible. And within the
key is a brittle slip of paper with two words written on it:
Deliverance Dane. Along with a handsome steeplejack named Sam,
Connie begins to dig into the town's records, looking for
references to Deliverance Dane. But even as the pieces begin to
fall into place, Connie is haunted by visions of the witch trials
so long ago, and she begins to fear that she is more tied to
Salem's dark past than she could have ever imagined. Written by an
author completing a Ph.D. in New England Studies, and whose
ancestors were accused witches in Salem, The Physick Book of
Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the trials in the 1690s
and a modern woman's story of mystery and discovery.
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.
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Conversion (Paperback)
Katherine Howe
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Chilling real-life accounts of witches, from medieval Europe
through colonial America
From a manual for witch hunters written by King James himself in
1597, to court documents from the Salem witch trials of 1692, to
newspaper coverage of a woman stoned to death on the streets of
Philadelphia while the Continental Congress met, "The Penguin Book
of Witches" is a treasury of historical accounts of accused witches
that sheds light on the reality behind the legends. Bringing to
life stories like that of Eunice Cole, tried for attacking a
teenage girl with a rock and buried with a stake through her heart;
Jane Jacobs, a Bostonian so often accused of witchcraft that she
took her tormentors to court on charges of slander; and Increase
Mather, an exorcism-performing minister famed for his knowledge of
witches, this volume provides a unique tour through the darkest
history of English and North American witchcraft, never failing to
horrify, intrigue, and delight.
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The House of the Seven Gables (Paperback)
Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Katherine Howe; Afterword by Brenda Wineapple
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The House of the Seven Gables" is a classic
of American literature, written by one of America's greatest
writers. First published in 1851, the book is set in a mansion not
unlike his cousin's many-gabled home in Salem, Massachusetts, which
Hawthorne visited regularly. Hawthorne believed "the wrong-doing of
one generation lives into the successive ones" and Hawthorne's
story depicts the memorable lives of the residents of the house who
were inextricably bound to the sins of their ancestors. Today, the
Turner-Ingersoll Mansion is popularly known as the House of the
Seven Gables, is on The National Register of Historic Places, and
is a museum open to the public.
Katherine Howe, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller
"The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane," returns with an entrancing
historical novel set in Boston in 1915, where a young woman stands
on the cusp of a new century, torn between loss and love, driven to
seek answers in the depths of a crystal ball. Still reeling from
the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl Allston
is living a life of quiet desperation with her taciturn father and
scandal-plagued brother in an elegant town house in Boston's Back
Bay. Trapped in a world over which she has no control, Sybil flees
for solace to the parlor of a table-turning medium. But when her
brother is suddenly kicked out of Harvard under mysterious
circumstances and falls under the sway of a strange young woman,
Sibyl turns for help to psychology professor Benton Jones, despite
the unspoken tensions of their shared past. As Benton and Sibyl
work together to solve a harrowing mystery, their long-simmering
spark flares to life, and they realize that there may be something
even more magical between them than a medium's scrying glass. From
the opium dens of Boston's Chinatown to the opulent salons of high
society, from the back alleys of colonial Shanghai to the decks of
the Titanic, "The House of Velvet and Glass" weaves together
meticulous period detail, intoxicating romance, and a final
shocking twist in a breathtaking novel that will thrill
readers.Bonus features in the eBook: Katherine Howe's essay on
scrying; Boston Daily Globe article on the Titanic from April 15,
1912; and a Reading Group Guide and Q&A with the author,
Katherine Howe.
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