Vanderbilt. The Rise And Fall Of An American Dynasty

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 317 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: 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 ahis mother as family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Posts Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father as 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 aone in shipping and another in railroads athat 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 athe Commodore, a 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 athe seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius as grandson and namesake had built athe family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.Now, the Commodore as 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 as empire, basked in the Commodore as 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 as viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

ISBN: 9780063249936