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Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe.

Cooper, Anderson, (author.). Howe, Katherine, 1977- (author.).

Summary:

Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandson, Anderson Cooper, joins historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of Staten Island to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts Europe, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American family unlike any other.

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  • ISBN: 9780063118324 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xviii, 424 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, genealogical table ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First Harper Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Subject: Vanderbilt family.
Upper class > United States > Biography.
Upper class families > United States > Biography.
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Genre: Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Headingley Municipal Library.

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Vanderbilt Family Tree x
Introduction xiii
Prologue The Breakers: March 30, 2018 1(20)
Part I Rise
1 The Tycoon: January 4, 1877
21(31)
2 Van der Bilt: c. 1660
52(20)
3 The Blatherskite and the Namesake: April 2, 1882
72(30)
4 Society as I Have Found It: October 22, 1883
102(25)
5 Venetian Princesses: March 26, 1883
127(28)
6 American Royalty: November 6, 1895
155(38)
Part II Fall
7 Failure Is Impossible: May 4, 1912
193(33)
8 Down with the Ship: May 1915
226(31)
9 Standing in a Cold Shower, Tearing Up Hundred-Thousand-Dollar Bills: September 15, 1934
257(30)
10 Living a Roman a Clef: November 21, 1934
287(42)
11 Gloria at La Cote Basque: November 28, 1966
329(34)
12 The Last Vanderbilt: October 28, 1978, and June 17, 2019
363(28)
Epilogue Christmas Eve 1930 391(18)
Acknowledgments 409(4)
Bibliography 413

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