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His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in , sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. 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.

This is a terrific book. With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions.

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With its intrinsic empathy and in-depth profiles of women, this is a distinctly intimate, insightful, and engrossing chronicle of an archetypal, self-consuming American dynasty. A smart, soulful page-turner. Strong stuff, and in Cooper's hands, well told. Cooper has won 18 Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. He lives in New York with his son, Wyatt.

Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. Her fiction has been translated into over twenty languages. She lives and sails in New England with her family, where she is at work on her next novel. She also puts hot sauce on everything. Purchase options and add-ons. Report an issue with this product.

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