Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper

“I suspect that being fatherless,” Gordon writes, “leaves a woman with a taste for the fanatical, having grown unsheltered, having never seen in the familiar flesh the embodiment of the ancient image of authority, a fatherless girl can

be satisfied only with the heroic, the desperate, the extreme. A fatherless girl thinks all things possible and nothing safe.”