Vanderbilt

Vanderbilt
Author: Anderson Cooper,Katherine Howe
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780062964649

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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 dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts. One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021 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.

42nd and Vanderbilt

42nd and Vanderbilt
Author: Peter Funch
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1942953313

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Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Author: Steven H. Gittelman,Emily Gittelman
Publsiher: Hamilton Books
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2013-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761855071

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At a young age, Alfred Vanderbilt inherited a massive fortune of $40 million and control of the Vanderbilt railroading empire. With no interest in business matters, the youth squandered his wealth on horses and women on two continents. None of the Vanderbilts gave as much fuel for gossip to the curious public as Alfred. By the time the extravagant playboy boarded the Lusitania on May 7, 1915, he was the subject of numerous scandals, including the suicide of four different women. But as the ship went down, he spent the last minutes of his life rescuing women and children and forgoing his own life. How is it that this wraith, this gluttonous, opulent youth, could undergo an entire change of character in his last few moments? Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt follows Alfred’s journey from philanderer to hero in this incredible, never-before-told story of the hero of the Lusitania.

Willie K Vanderbilt II

Willie K  Vanderbilt II
Author: Steven H. Gittelman
Publsiher: McFarland
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780786458233

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The Vanderbilts were one of the great American families of the industrial era. This book explores the life of one of its lesser-known scions of the fourth generation, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, known simply as Willie K. An inheritor, not a builder, Willie K. lacked the drive and ambition necessary for furthering the Vanderbilt dynasty, especially in the political atmosphere of bank failures, the dawn of progressivism, and the First World War. This biography, while the story of one man, is also an exploration of the burden of enormous wealth, the danger of inherited dreams, and the struggle for self-actualization regardless of wealth or social status.

The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette

The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette
Author: Amy Vanderbilt,Letitia Baldrige
Publsiher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
Total Pages: 910
Release: 1978
Genre: Etiquette
ISBN: 0385133758

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Advice geared to contemporary living on correct behavior in a wide variety of situations.

Vanderbilt s Biltmore

Vanderbilt s Biltmore
Author: Robert Wernick
Publsiher: New Word City
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2018-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781612306131

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The original sketch for the Biltmore, George Washington Vanderbilt's grand estate in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, laid out plans for a modest Tuscan villa. But ambition quickly took wing. The house swelled to 225 rooms and became - until 2012 when it was topped by the home of a billionaire in Mumbai, India - the world's largest residence ever built for a private citizen. Here, in this short-form book, New York Times bestselling author Robert Wernick tells the story of the house that Vanderbilt built - from the gardens by Frederick Law Olmsted to the John Singer Sargent portraits that adorn its walls.

William H Vanderbilt s Gift of an Egyptian Obelisk Cleopatra s Needle

William H Vanderbilt s Gift of an Egyptian Obelisk  Cleopatra s Needle
Author: Henry H Gorringe
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9780557000906

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William H Vanderbilt s House and Collection Volume 4 thru 6

William H Vanderbilt s House and Collection Volume 4 thru 6
Author: Edward Strahan
Publsiher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2008-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781435755727

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Volumes 4 thru 6 of the House and Collection