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Anderson Cooper, the New York Times bestselling author and journalist, partners up with Katherine Howe, the New York Times bestselling historian and novelist, to chronicle the rise and fall of a great American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. When Cornelius Vanderbilt, then eleven years old, began working on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the turn of the nineteenth century, no one could have predicted that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and one in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America.
After his death in 1877, his heirs struggled over his vast inheritance, causing familial strife that would never entirely heal.
Despite the fact that his son Billy doubled “the Commodore’s” money, following generations strove to discover new and ever more remarkable methods to squander it.
When the final Vanderbilt was evicted from The Breakers, the seventy-room vacation house in Newport, Rhode Island, constructed by Cornelius’s grandson and namesake, the family would have been unrecognizable to the businessman who started it all.
Now, Anderson Cooper, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson, collaborates with historian Katherine Howe to tell the tale of his remarkable family and their enormous effect.
Cooper and Howe bring to life the predecessors who created the family’s business, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, gave extravagant galas, and were associated with unbridled American capitalism and high society.
Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other, 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.
This is a boisterous, distinctively American history as fascinating as the family it so vividly represents, written with a unique insider’s perspective.
A September 2021 Amazon Best Book:
The name Vanderbilt conjures up images of wealth and high society, and in this glittering biography, Anderson Cooper and historian Katherine Howe give us a rare insider’s view of his storied family—heirs and spouses, affairs and rivalries—and how a great fortune was made, fought over, spent, and eventually lost.
The Vanderbilts’ saga is a traditional American fairy tale that began with Cooper’s clever but cruel great-great-great-grandfather, called the Commodore, who acquired a vast wealth in his lifetime, one that would be gone by the twenty-first century. In Vanderbilt, readers are brought inside the Commodore’s spectacular parties, rich houses, and interesting lives, concluding with Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper’s mother, whose tale is presented with special care and sympathy.
Vanderbilt wonderfully transports readers back in time to the Gilded Age’s golden days, as well as the ensuing scandals, achievements, and excesses of a real American family.
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Amazon Editor Seira Wilson
Review
“Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. . . . This is a terrific book.” — Washington Post
“An incredible story.” — People
“A dramatic tale expertly told of rapacious ambition, decadent excess, and covert and overt tyranny and trauma. . . . With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions. . . . With its intrinsic empathy and in-depth profiles of women, this is a distinctly intimate, insightful, and engrossing chronicle of an archetypal, self-consuming American dynasty. . . . Irresistible.” — Booklist (starred review)
“Marked by meticulous research and deep emotional insight, this is a memorable chronicle of American royalty.” — Publishers Weekly
“A remarkably frank and tender undertaking.”
— The New York Times on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
“Meaningful, revealing.” — The Wall Street Journal on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
“Fascinating, forthright, philosophical, and inspiring, these mother-and-son musings on family, life, death, forgiveness, fame, and perseverance are at once uniquely personal and deeply human.” — Booklist (starred review) on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
“Cooper is a storyteller with plenty of heart. . . . A smart, soulful page-turner. . . . Strong stuff, and in Cooper’s hands, well told.” — People on Dispatches from the Edge
“His vignettes from the world’s horrorscapes rise above the swagger of many journalistic memoirs because Cooper writes with competence as well as feeling. . . . Intriguing.” — Washington Post Book World on Dispatches from the Edge
About the Author
Anderson Cooper joined CNN in 2001 and has anchored his own program, Anderson Cooper 360°, since March 2003. Cooper has won 18 Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. He lives in New York with his son, Wyatt.
Product details
Publisher : Harper (September 21, 2021)
Language : English
Hardcover : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0062964615
ISBN-13 : 978-0062964618
Item Weight : 1.23 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 1.09 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#1 in Business Professional’s Biographies
#6 in Rich & Famous Biographies #9 in United States Biographies
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