Description: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
Brief description:
Anderson Cooper is an anchor at CNN and a correspondent for CBS's 60 Minutes. He has won twenty Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. Cooper is the author of the New York Times bestseller Astor (with Katherine Howe) and three number one New York Times bestsellers: The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Dispatches from the Edge, and Vanderbilt (with Katherine Howe). He lives in New York with his two sons.
Review Quotes:
"A remarkably frank and tender undertaking."
- The New York Times on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
"Meaningful, revealing." - The Wall Street Journal on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
"Cooper is a storyteller with plenty of heart. . . . A smart, soulful page-turner. . . . Strong stuff, and in Cooper's hands, well told." - People on Dispatches from the Edge
"His vignettes from the world's horrorscapes rise above the swagger of many journalistic memoirs because Cooper writes with competence as well as feeling. . . . Intriguing." - Washington Post Book World on Dispatches from the Edge
"Fascinating, forthright, philosophical, and inspiring, these mother-and-son musings on family, life, death, forgiveness, fame, and perseverance are at once uniquely personal and deeply human." - Booklist (starred review) on The Rainbow Comes and Goes
"A dramatic tale expertly told of rapacious ambition, decadent excess, and covert and overt tyranny and trauma. . . . With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions. . . . 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. . . . Irresistible." - Booklist (starred review)
"Marked by meticulous research and deep emotional insight, this is a memorable chronicle of American royalty." - Publishers Weekly
"Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. . . . This is a terrific book." - Washington Post
"An incredible story." - People