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The #1 New York Times bestselling 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 Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction

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 railroads—that 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 Breakers—the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius’s grandson and namesake had built—the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all.

Now, the Commodore’s great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family’s empire, basked in the Commodore’s wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other.

Written with a unique insider’s viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.

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“Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. . . . This is a terrific book.” — Washington Post

"An incredible story." — People

“A dramatic tale expertly told of rapacious ambition, decadent excess, and covert and overt tyranny and trauma. . . . With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions. . . . With its intrinsic empathy and in-depth profiles of women, this is a distinctly intimate, insightful, and engrossing chronicle of an archetypal, self-consuming American dynasty. . . . Irresistible.” — Booklist (starred review)

“Marked by meticulous research and deep emotional insight, this is a memorable chronicle of American royalty.” — Publishers Weekly

“A remarkably frank and tender undertaking.”
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"Meaningful, revealing." — The Wall Street Journal on The Rainbow Comes and Goes

“Fascinating, forthright, philosophical, and inspiring, these mother-and-son musings on family, life, death, forgiveness, fame, and perseverance are at once uniquely personal and deeply human.” — Booklist (starred review) on The Rainbow Comes and Goes

“Cooper is a storyteller with plenty of heart. . . . A smart, soulful page-turner. . . . Strong stuff, and in Cooper’s hands, well told.” — People on Dispatches from the Edge

“His vignettes from the world’s horrorscapes rise above the swagger of many journalistic memoirs because Cooper writes with competence as well as feeling. . . . Intriguing.” — Washington Post Book World on Dispatches from the Edge

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Anderson Cooper is an anchor at CNN and a correspondent for CBS’s 60 Minutes. He has won twenty Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. Cooper is the author of the New York Times bestseller Astor (with Katherine Howe)and three number one New York Times bestsellers: The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Dispatches from the Edge, and Vanderbilt (with Katherine Howe). He lives in New York with his two sons.



Katherine Howe is a novelist and a historian of America. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane, The House of Velvet and Glass, and (with Anderson Cooper)Vanderbilt and Astor; the young adult novels Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen; and she was the editor of The Penguin Book of Witches. She lives with her family in New England.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Paperbacks (September 20, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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    Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the co-author with Anderson Cooper of the #1 New York Times bestselling Vanderbilt: the Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. Their latest collaboration is Astor: the Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, and her newest novel is A True Account: Hannah Masury's Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself. Her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. She lives and sails in New England with her family, where she is at work on her next novel. She also puts hot sauce on everything.

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Customers find the book interesting and well-presented. They praise the writing quality as wonderful, authoritative, and well-written. Readers describe the family history as interesting and an interesting study in family dynamics. They also say the book provides a fascinating inside look at NYC high society. Readers praise the research quality as exceptional, well-documented, and professional. However, some find the book uninteresting, confusing, and tedious to read. Opinions differ on the detail, with some finding it excellent, while others say it's pointless.

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Customers find the book interesting and well-written. They say it's an entertaining read about Anderson Cooper's ancestors. Readers also mention the book is informative and worth reading.

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"...It was a well-written, factual narrative that I highly recommend." Read more

"This book was so interesting I couldn’t put it down. So much history. The Vanderbilt family will always go down in history...." Read more

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Customers find the writing quality of the book very well-written, elegant, and easy to read. They also appreciate the humor, wit, and remarkable authenticity. Readers also mention the word pictures are well-done and amusing.

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Customers find the family history interesting, with a study in family dynamics. They appreciate the photographs and family tree to help identify everyone. Readers also like the genealogy details and thorough research. They say the book gives a fun look into a storied family.

"...I found both books hard to put down. Absolutely fascinating families and how they earned and spent their millions." Read more

"Great story about a fascinating American family. Great writers - immensely entertaining to read about Anderson Cooper’s ancestors...." Read more

"I truly enjoyed this historical, family story. Having visited NYC several times, it explains some things I “knew” were off but didn’t know why...." Read more

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Customers find the book fascinating, nice, and approachable. They say it paints an incredible portrait of times past and appreciate the included photographs and family tree. Readers also mention the book is well-done and unvarnished in its honest portrayal of a dynastic family.

"...telling many different stories, all intertwined providing a wonderful look many people but don’t get lost on when it’s all about" Read more

"A fascinating inside look at the machinations of NYC high society from the Guilded Age, through the first half of the 20th Century, as seen through..." Read more

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Customers find the book exceptionally well-researched, well-written, and well-documented. They say it's serious, but with a delightful note of levity. Readers also mention the material is impressive, excellent, and authentic all the way through.

"...Well researched and very well written, and an interesting topic for history buffs, so well worth reading for the right reader!" Read more

"...Well written and factual.Good job, Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe." Read more

"...I am not disappointed for the authors have done a superior job of researching and telling the reader shout the characters of each generation, their..." Read more

"cooper did a decent job of discussing each generation but kind of went easy on his mom, but never the less theer was new info to be had. a good read" Read more

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"A fascinating look at another time in our history and a way of life we may have thought we enviedVery well written and an easy read." Read more

"...the people being talked about until well into a story, was completely unhelpful...." Read more

"Great picture of the Vanderbilt family history and a peek into America’s gilded age. Well written and factual...." Read more

"...He seems so humble, thoughtful and intelligent compared to most of them. I watch his show daily on CNN." Read more

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"Elegantly written, with empathy for less than perfect people, the story of a family that had impact on American life came alive through this account..." Read more

"...Deft, amusing, entertaining, and somewhat sad. Life the .1% lived and the excesses of great wealth with the drama they lived...." Read more

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Evelyn Boada
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read.
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A fascinating look at another time in our history and a way of life we may have thought we envied
Very well written and an easy read.
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CookinMaine
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting book
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2024
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I like books that are biographies and historical too, and I would have given it a five but it felt like it was going off track too many times in the end. You go from a heavy historical book to other stories that seem to go off in different tangents. Anyway, it was good.
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E. Piper
5.0 out of 5 stars FASCINATING
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2024
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I really enjoyed this book and learned a lot about the Vanderbilt family. I found their history fascinating and was appalled at how they squandered such an immense fortune. It was a well-written, factual narrative that I highly recommend.
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DJ
3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad; not quite what I was hoping for
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2023
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I bought and listened to the Audible version all the way through. Before I listened, I knew basically nothing about the Vanderbilts, aside from they were an old wealthy family and that Gloria sold jeans (though I actually had not made the connection between the old family and Gloria until the book).

Pros:

- Cooper is, not surprisingly, a great narrator. Clear and polished without being affected.

- The book delivered to some extent on its title, describing the rise and fall of the dynasty, though emphasizing the fall.

- Certainly I know more about the Vanderbilts than I did before the book and have some sense of their place in history.

Cons:

- The book did not pay nearly enough attention to how the money was made. Basically, we hear a lot about how Commodore Cornelius got his start, which was great, but not how he built an empire. How people make money is important. Was it hard work and smart decisions? What were those decisions? Management style? How did the transition into railroads work? Who were other important people in the businesses? Was he a straight shooter or slimy? Is there a "great crime" behind the great fortune? And then, we get to BIlly, his primary heir, who in eight years *doubled* what was already the country's largest fortune, but *nothing* about how he made that happen (or whether he lucked into it). From there we hear little about the Vanderbilt involvement with the railroad, even though they seemed to be at least a little involved.

Basically, if you're going to present the rise and fall of a dynasty, spend at least as much time talking about how it was created (the hard part) as you do about how it was dissipated.

- The book involves a lot of time travel, with flashbacks, forward, sideways. It does this at both a chapter level and within the chapters. It was incredibly hard to follow at times, especially since I had not heard of any of these people before. This, along with sometimes not naming the people being talked about until well into a story, was completely unhelpful. The stories themselves are frequently dramatic, and they don't need these devices to make them so.

- Way too much detail about flowers at parties, attire, and home furnishings. It worked for Edith Wharton but not so well here.

- Way too many details that are speculative. "He would have felt the ..." It seemed like there was an attempt at literary fiction here - it didn't succeed for me.

- Why was there an entire chapter about Truman Capote? I get that he and Gloria were friends, but that doesn't seem to me to justify an entire chapter, or if it does, the chapter should be mostly about their relationship, and not a mini-biography of his rise and fall.
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Sandy
5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely amazing!
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This book was so interesting I couldn’t put it down. So much history. The Vanderbilt family will always go down in history. They were rich and sometimes poor but they did it their way. They lived a life of excitement, sometimes happy, sometimes sad. But they built their Dynasty. I would’ve loved to had met them.
Highly recommend this book.
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Doug
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2024
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When discussing a family history, there will always be parts uninteresting to those outside the family, this books has those. However, interesting the vast wealth diminished by so many who were clueless.

Still worth the read.
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mayfly
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant family biography
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2024
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I ordered this book when I was about halfway through Anderson's 'ASTOR' book. Both volumes are multi-generational biographies of two prominent families before, during and after the Guilded Age (1870ish- 1900). Vanderbilt is a bit different from Astor because Anderson is discussing his own lineage, and covers a lot about his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. I found both books hard to put down. Absolutely fascinating families and how they earned and spent their millions.
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Louise D. Somes
5.0 out of 5 stars OUTSTANDING!!
Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2024
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I just finished this riveting, very well written account of the Vanderbilt dynasty, from Cornelius Vanderbilt all the way to the author, Anderson Cooper.
I truly could not stop reading about the rise and fall, as the title states, of these fascinating people. From Staten Island to glittering Gilded Age Mansions to England and to Europe, I learned so much.
I cannot recommend this book enough!!
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Robbie Kavanaugh
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Canada on August 27, 2024
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Great look into the lives of one of America's most wealthy families.
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Pedro C
5.0 out of 5 stars Great timeline and memoir of one of the icon families of the world.
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I strongly recommend Anderson Cooper's version of the Vanderbilts. Not only because of the great research work but for the point of view from which he visions his ancestors and their individual contribution to both America's and the world's social and trending evolution.
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Laurence Lautman
5.0 out of 5 stars good read.
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Manuel
5.0 out of 5 stars Reading recommended
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the1andonly
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2021
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This writing team have produced the best, most interesting and most human of the books that I have read about the super-rich American families of the 19th century. Mr Cooper's family insight is invaluable. A must for anyone interested in this period.
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