Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty

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Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts. When 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 empires-one in shipping and another in rai...

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ISBN:

9780062964618
0062964615

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xvi, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), colour map, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Rise and fall of an American dynasty

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Prologue. The Breakers: March 30, 2018
The tycoon: January 4, 1877
Van der Bilt: c. 1660
The Blatherskite and the namesake: April 2, 1882
Society as I have found it: October 22, 1883
Venetian princesses: March 26, 1883
American royalty: November 6, 1895
Failure is impossible: May 4, 1912
Down with the ship: May 1915
Standing in a cold shower, tearing up hundred-thousand-dollar bills: September 15, 1934
Living a Roman à Clef: November 21, 1934
Gloria at La Côte Basque: November 28, 1966
The last Vanderbilt: October 28, 1978, and June 17, 2019
Epilogue. Christmas Eve, 1930

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3078123

Other Authors:

Howe, Katherine, 1977- author

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