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New York Times’s best-selling writer and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with the New York Times, the best-selling historian and novelist Catherine Howe to Chronicle the Rise and Fall of a Legendary American Dynasty-Teams with Teams with Vanderbules, family of his mother.
When 11 -year -old Cornelius Vanderbilat began working on the supply of his father’s small boat in New York Harbor in the early 19th century, no one would have thought that one day he would build two empire through cruelty, clever, and a pathological desire for money, two kingdoms – one in a shipping and one and after their deaths in 1877, they were shocked in 1877. Which extinguishes family feud which will never be completely cured. Although his son Billy doubled the money left by “The Commodore”, later generations competed to find new and sometimes more extraordinary ways to spend it. By 2018, when the final vendorbults were dropped from the breakers – Newport, 70 -Mem Summer Estate in Road Island, which was created by the grandson and named Cornelius – the family was unfamiliar to the tycoon that started all this.
Now, the great-granddaughter of Commodore, Anderson Cooper, is associated with historians Catherine Howe to find out the story of his mythological family and their external influence. Cooper and Howe breathed life among the ancestors who created the family empire, based in the wealth of Commodore, hosted a grand Galas, and became synonymous with unformed American capitalism and high society. From the hardcraft ghats of the old manhattan to the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the ways of modern-Nuyork, Cooper and Hove Vree, for all the ways of Cooper and Howe Vree, wandered in all ways to travel to all the ways of Cooper and Howe Vree, and an American lineage and an American genealogy.
It is written with a unique interior point of view, it is a rolling, the best American history, which is notable as a family, it captures very clearly.
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Customers say
Customers find the book highly readable with superb writing and appreciate its educational value on American history, particularly about the Gilded Age. Moreover, the book provides a fascinating inside look at the Vanderbilt dynasty, with one customer noting how it paints an incredible portrait of times past. Additionally, customers praise its authenticity, with one review highlighting its exceptionally well-researched content. However, the book receives mixed feedback – while some find it engaging, others describe it as uninteresting and repetitive.
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