Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American DynastyNew 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