Description: Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Paperback – September 20, 2022 Product Details Publisher : Harper Paperbacks (September 20, 2022) Language : English Paperback : 352 pages ISBN-13 : 978-0062964625 Item Weight : 2.31 pounds Dimensions : 5.31 x 0.91 x 8 inches “Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written.” — Washington PostThe #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 of the Washington Post's Notable Works of NonfictionWhen 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, 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. Read more
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Paperback: 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0062964623
ISBN-13: 978-0062964625
Dimensions: 5.31 x 0.91 x 8 inches
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Book Title: Vanderbilt : the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2022
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Rich & Famous, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Railroads / History, United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Business
Genre: Transportation, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
