Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper

Those sweetly reflective Vermeer interiors don’t reflect the truth of life in New Amsterdam for most people, it turns out.

If you smoke on a sailboat, flip your ashes or discard your cigarette on the side the sail is on, so the wind won’t blow sparks or ashes or butts back into the boat. —Amy Vanderbilt’s Complete Book of Etiquette, Part II: “Dress and Manners”