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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 dynastyhis mother's family, the Vanderbilts.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021When 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 empiresone in shipping and another in railroadsthat 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 Breakersthe seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius's grandson and namesake had builtthe family would have been unrecognizable to the
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- Author
- Cooper, Anderson, Howe, Katherine
- Publisher
- Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780063118324
- Category
- hobbies
- Subjects
- History, Engineering, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (14,818 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14