VANDERBILT-Rise & Fall of American Dynasty-ANDERSON COOPER-1st BRAND NEW HC w/DJ

Description: Hi! You're looking at a BRAND NEW and UNREAD condition book which is a biography of the American Vanderbilt family written by newsman ANDERSON COOPER, the son of the late Gloria Vanderbilt--the book is a collectible STATED FIRST EDITION and FIRST PRINTING and a HARDCOVER with the ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET and is NOT a remainder copy and NOT price-clipped, with the original $30.00 price in the upper corner of the front inner flap. The book has a very light ding on the lower spine tip but is in PERFECT shape otherwise! The book is titled Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty and it was written by ANDERSON COOPER with actual author KATHERINE HOWE; it was published by Harper in 2021 and is a STATED 1st EDITION and 1st PRINTING with a publication line reading 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.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.A fantastic find, and a beautiful copy of this book!Thanks for looking, and good luck if you're bidding! Also be sure to check out all of my other great books currently listed on ebay auctions--I can combine shipping for multiple purchases!

Price: 17.99 USD

Location: Williamsport, Pennsylvania

End Time: 2024-11-26T22:00:05.000Z

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