Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper

No one could believe that the man who controlled one out of every twenty American dollars in circulation at that time could actually, finally die.

I reminded her that she had once said she wouldn’t want to live after she “lost her beauty.” “What a stupid thing to say. I don’t know what I was thinking; I must have been drunk.” She laughed.

“I WAS HERE” inside. A stranger’s voice shouting into the darkness, I exist. I was here. This all really happened.