Vanderbilt

Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. . . . This is a terrific book. -- <strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong> An incredible story. -- <strong><em>People</em></strong> A dramatic tale expertly told of rapacious ambition, decadent excess, and covert and overt tyranny and trauma. . . . With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions. . . . With its intrinsic empathy and in-depth profiles of women, this is a distinctly intimate, insightful, and engrossing chronicle of an archetypal, self-consuming American dynasty. . . . Irresistible. -- <strong><em>Booklist </em>(starred review)</strong> Marked by meticulous research and deep emotional insight, this is a memorable chronicle of American royalty. -- <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong> A remarkably frank and tender undertaking. -- <strong>The <em>New York Times </em>on<em> The Rainbow Comes and Goes</em></strong> Meaningful, revealing. -- <strong>The <em>Wall Street Journal </em>on</strong><em> </em><strong><em>The Rainbow Comes and Goes</em></strong> Fascinating, forthright, philosophical, and inspiring, these mother-and-son musings on family, life, death, forgiveness, fame, and perseverance are at once uniquely personal and deeply human. -- <strong><em>Booklist</em></strong> <strong>(starred review) </strong><strong>on</strong><em> </em><em><strong>The Rainbow Comes and Goes</strong></em> Cooper is a storyteller with plenty of heart. . . . A smart, soulful page-turner. . . . Strong stuff, and in Cooper's hands, well told. -- <strong><em>People </em>on<em> Dispatches from the Edge</em></strong> His vignettes from the world's horrorscapes rise above the swagger of many journalistic memoirs because Cooper writes with competence as well as feeling. . . . Intriguing. -- <strong><em>Washington Post</em> Book World on<em> Dispatches from the Edge</em></strong>