Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandson, Anderson Cooper, joins historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their remarkable influence. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of Staten Island to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts Europe, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American family unlike any other.
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