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New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother's family, the Vanderbilts.
One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of Nonfiction of 2021
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying
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A history of three generations of the wealthy Sackler family, noted for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was ruined by OxyContin. The story begins with three doctor brothers, Raymond, Mortimer, and Arthur. Arthur created the marketing for Valium and bought a drug manufacturer, Purdue Frederick, which would be run by Raymond and Mortimer. Forty years later, Raymond's son Richard ran the family-owned Purdue....
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