SIGNED, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe, Signed by Cooper, First 2024 Edition

New York: Harper, 2021 SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/NF. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Anderson Cooper on the publisher's bound-in page. The unread book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean unmarred boards. Tiny nick on side fore-edges of pages 312-14. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white and color photos. Pictorial color endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($30.00) with 2024 faint crease to the spine head, else Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 317 pages. 6 x 9¼" tall.

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.

Through ruthlessness and cunning, Cornelius Vanderbilt 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.
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