Description: Vanderbilt by Andeson Cooper (2021, Hardcover) First Edition/First Printing Very good condition. Very minimal wear and tear. First edition, first printing. Illustrated. Dust jacket does have minimal wear on the top end of the dust jacket. The flyleaf does have a stamp and a sticker on the top right corner. Clean pages. No tears. No dogeared pages. No markings. See photos for detail. Overall, the book is in very good condition. CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family, the Vanderbilts. Few names are as synonymous with wealth and glamour as "Vanderbilt." When Cornelius Vanderbilt, the teenaged son of a ferryman who worked in New York Harbor, decided to go into business on his own, few would have believed that within six decades he would come to epitomize American business, magnate of a shipping and railroad empire that made him the richest man in the country. In the wake of his death in 1877, Cornelius's heirs bitterly fought over his estate, sowing familial discord that would last for decades. For the generations of Vanderbilts who followed, fortunes were lost and made and lost again. In this tide of success and failure, a particularly American excess displayed itself. By 2019, when the last Vanderbilt left the Breakers-- the estate in Newport, Rhode Island, his son and namesake Cornelius Vanderbilt II built--the family would most likely have been unrecognizable to the Commodore. Now, the Commodore's great-great-great-grandson, Anderson Cooper, tells the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence. Working with historian and novelist Katherine Howe, Cooper breathes life into the ancestors who built the family's empire, doubled the Commodore's wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with American capitalism and high society. Moving from Staten Island to the drawing rooms of Fifth Avenue, the ornate cottages of Newport to Europe, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the family's triumphs and tragedies and reflect on the social mores they observed, flouted, and shaped. Drawing on never-before-seen documents and told from a unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures. --------------- Shelf A0
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Signed: No
Book Series: Harper
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
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Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Expressionism, Modernism, Post-Modernism
Era: 2020s
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Book Title: Vanderbilt : the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Item Length: 9.3in
Item Height: 1.2in
Item Width: 6.4in
Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Rich & Famous, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Railroads / History, United States / 19th Century, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Business
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication Year: 2021
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Transportation, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 20.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
