Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

by Anderson Cooper

“People don’t read books nowadays, don’t you know. They live too rapidly.

No one wants to confess to feeling abandoned, afraid, and alone as a child, especially not to one’s own children.

exceptional moments are not often what matter most to us, when we reflect on the lives we have lived.

She had lived in the two-bedroom apartment for twenty-three years, far longer than she’d ever lived anywhere in her life. She’d decorated and redecorated its rooms dozens of times, her eye never quite satisfied with the story she wanted them to tell. “Everything we do is autobiographical,” she would say, and the rooms in that apartment certainly were.