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| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Format physique additionnel : | Online version: Auchincloss, Louis. Vanderbilt era. New York : Scribner, c1989 (OCoLC)582382565 Online version: Auchincloss, Louis. Vanderbilt era. New York : Scribner, c1989 (OCoLC)609151010 Online version: Auchincloss, Louis. Vanderbilt era. New York : Scribner, c1989 (OCoLC)610281311 |
| Personne nommée : | Vanderbilt family. |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Louis Auchincloss |
| ISBN : | 0684190842 : 9780684190846 0684191121 9780684191126 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 19354641 |
| Notes : | Includes index. |
| Description : | x, 214 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contenu : | The Vanderbilt era -- The commodore -- William Henry -- Cornelius II and Chauncey Depew -- William K. and Alva -- George and Richard Morris Hunt -- The daughters of William Henry -- Henry White -- Gertrude Whitney -- Florence Adele Sloane -- Consuela -- Grace -- John Singer Sargent -- Jay Gould -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- Edmund C. Stanton -- Edith Wharton -- Henry Adams and his brothers -- Louis C. Tiffany and Stanford White -- Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister -- John Pierpont Morgan -- Genealogical chart of the Vanderbilt family. |
| Responsabilité : | Louis Auchincloss. |
Résumé :
This volume "examines the lives of New York's 'acceptable' families, the privileged wealthy, during the period 1880-1920. The author uses his close connections to their descendants and other research to tell lively anecdotal histories of the business-dominated, pseudo-aristocracy in democratic America." The Vanderbilt family was highly prominent during the 1800s due to the family patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, who created railroad and shipping empires. His descendants went on to build great Fifth Avenue mansions, Newport, Rhode Island summer cottages, the famous Biltmore House and various other exclusive homes. The family members were the leaders of the high society scene and the Gilded Age, until the early 1900s, when the ten great Fifth Avenue mansions were torn down and fellow Vanderbilt homes were sold as museums and the like. This work consists of group portraits among its illustrations of three generations of the Vanderbilt family's conspicuous outward appearances and architectural indulgences.
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