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Correspondence between the CNN journalist and his celebrated mother, exchanged in the aftermath of the latter's brief illness, shares a rare window into their relationship and the life lessons imparted by an aging mother to her adult son.
Cooper's intensely busy career as a journalist for CNN and CBS' 60 Minutes affords him little time to spend with his ninety-one year old mother. After she briefly fell ill, they began a conversation through e-mail...
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Get the Summary of Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe's Vanderbilt in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book. Original book introduction: When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father's small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build...
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The story of the Vanderbilt family embodies the ultimate American dream. Beginning with a farmer who came to America as an indentured servant, they rose to become one of the most influential and wealthiest families of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe's Vanderbilt (2021) uncovers the lives of Cooper's ancestors, individuals...
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Summary of Anderson Cooper & Gloria Vanderbilt's The Rainbow Comes and Goes is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder if he and his mother knew one another as well as they could. After the untimely death of his father...
5) Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes: by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis
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Summary of The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt | Includes Analysis Preview: The Rainbow Comes and Goes by Anderson Cooper and Gloria Vanderbilt is the result of a year of email exchanges between a son and his mother. They explore themes of life, love, and loss. When Vanderbilt was nearing her ninety-first birthday, she was hospitalized with a respiratory infection. This led Cooper to consider her mortality and to wonder...
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Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years, unapologetically pursuing love, family and career, experiencing extreme tragedy and tremendous success side by side. In this HBO Documentary Films production, Vanderbilt and her son, award-winning TV journalist Anderson Cooper, look back at Vanderbilt's remarkable, still-productive life.
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"The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire,...
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Overview: This second edition of the immediately popular 101 Careers in Mathematics contains updates on the career paths of individuals profiled in the first edition, along with many new profiles. No career counselor should be without this valuable resource. The authors of the essays in the this volume describe a wide variety of careers for which a background in the mathematical sciences is useful. Each of the jobs presented show real people in...
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