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Indlæser... Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynastyaf Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.   ) Ferg.ma | Apr 13, 2024 |   ) beebeereads | Mar 23, 2024 | 3.5*** Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Cooper, the son of “the last Vanderbilt” (Gloria Vanderbilt), and a trained journalist, looks at the family legacy in this work of nonfiction. There have been many books written about this uber wealthy family of the gilded age. Usually, the books have focused on one or two of the generations from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt to his children and grandchildren. Cooper tries to encapsulate the history of his family in its entirety. Unfortunately, there is so much information about the family that we get only glimpses of some of the more colorful members. His focus seems to be on how the Commodore accumulated so much wealth (and why doing so was so all-encompassing for him), and how his descendants managed to squander it all away. Dysfunctional family with a capital ‘D’! The rich ARE different. He spends some time countering the book (and TV miniseries) made about his mother, Little Gloria, Happy At Last, relating the “true story” behind some of the dramatized scenes. On the whole, it held my attention, and I learned a few tidbits I hadn’t previously come across. The text comes with many photos. The ones printed in the center of the book all have captions, but the photos on the front and back cover, and on the front and back endpapers have no captions, so the reader is left to puzzle out who these people might be. Cooper does a fine job of reading the book. He is, after all, invested in the story. (  ) BookConcierge | Jan 22, 2024 | I listened to the audio version (Anderson Cooper reads) and I enjoyed this very much. If you have any interest in the Gilded Age in NY (or the HBO series), the first part of the book is an interesting look at how the Vanderbilts operated and excelled in that social caste. Later on there is a chapter on the America's Cup sailing race and a bit on rise and fall of Truman Capote. Overall it is a fascinating trip through the history of the wealthy society in NYC. ( ) ellink | Jan 22, 2024 | ) pgabj | Oct 18, 2023 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: 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 No library descriptions found. |
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