Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. Washington PostThe #1 New York Times bestselling Gilded Age chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe. One of the Washington Posts Notable Works of NonfictionWhen elevenyearold Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his fathers 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 seventyroom summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Corneliuss grandson and namesake had builtthe family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodores greatgreatgreatgrandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the riveting family saga of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the familys empire,...

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; Classification: BGB; Weight: 476 g; Dimensions: 136 x 202 x 28

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