Search Results
Showing Item 3 of 44
Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty
Book
First edition.
Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
"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." --Amazon.com.
"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." --Amazon.com.
Available copies
- 41 of 46 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
2 current holds with 46 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedford Free Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31002150871100 |
Available - |
| Bedford Hills Free Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31003151491120 |
Available - |
| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31036150954029 |
Available - |
| Bronxville Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31004151791337 |
Available - |
| Bronxville Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31004151821951 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | BIOGRAPHY VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31005153450582 |
Available - |
| Chappaqua Library | BIOGRAPHY VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31005600105300 |
Available - |
| Croton Free Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31006151845997 |
Available - |
| Dobbs Ferry Public Library | 920 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31007151418363 |
Available - |
| Eastchester Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31008152553778 |
Available - |
| Greenburgh Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31009154913739 |
Checked out 04/25/2024 |
| Harrison Public Library | BIO VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31010300261593 |
Available - |
| Harrison West Harrison Branch Library | 920 COO (Text) Nonfiction |
31010400116085 |
Available - |
| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31011151411543 |
Available - |
| Irvington Public Library | BIO VANDERBILT FAMILY (Text) Biography |
31012154377475 |
Available - |
| Katonah Village Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Nonfiction |
31013151910409 |
Available - |
| Katonah Village Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31013151930688 |
Available - |
| Larchmont Public Library | 920 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31014152918771 |
Available - |
| Larchmont Public Library | 920 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31014153021419 |
Checked out 04/20/2024 |
| Lewisboro Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31032151416803 |
Available - |
| Mamaroneck Public Library District | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31015152637386 |
Available - |
| Mount Kisco Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31017100342010 |
Available - |
| Mount Pleasant Branch Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31024250749689 |
Available - |
| Mount Pleasant Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31024153775682 |
Available - |
| Mount Vernon Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31018155622207 |
Available - |
| New Rochelle Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31019156678693 |
Available - |
| North Castle Public Library | 929.2 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31001152001229 |
Available - |
| North White Plains Branch | BIO VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31001250755346 |
Available - |
| Ossining Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31021153424824 |
Available - |
| Port Chester-Rye Brook Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31025152502126 |
Available - |
| Pound Ridge Library District | BIO VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31026151033782 |
Available - |
| Purchase Free Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31027150572945 |
Available - |
| Scarsdale Public Library | BIO VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31029154450763 |
Available - |
| Scarsdale Public Library | BIO VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31029154455630 |
Available - |
| Scarsdale Public Library | TRD PB C (Text) Trade Paperback |
31029154137592 |
Available - |
| Scarsdale Public Library | TRD PB C (Text) Trade Paperback |
31029154137600 |
Available - |
| Somers Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31031152043590 |
Available - |
| The Field Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31022152317712 |
Checked out 05/05/2024 |
| Town of Pelham Public Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31023151294167 |
Available - |
| Warner Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31033152098319 |
Available - |
| White Plains Public Library | BIOGRAPHY VANDERBILT (Text) Nonfiction |
31544101226819 |
Available - |
| White Plains Public Library | BIOGRAPHY VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS (Text) Nonfiction |
31544101254050 |
Available - |
| Yonkers Crestwood Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31035162530835 |
Available - |
| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31035162246754 |
Checked out 04/29/2024 |
| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | B VANDERBILT (Text) Biography |
31035162530843 |
Available - |
| Yonkers Riverfront Library | 929.2 C (Text) Nonfiction |
31035612065135 |
Checked out 04/25/2024 |
Search Results
Showing Item 3 of 44