Anderson Cooper to Join Newport Historical Society to Discuss New Vanderbilt Book

Anderson Cooper to Join Newport Historical Society to Discuss New Vanderbilt Book

The Newport Historical Society is hosting CNN anchor and New York Times best-selling author Anderson Cooper to discuss his new work of narrative history about the rise and fall of an American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.

The online event will take place on Thursday, November 4th, at 5:30 p.m.

NHS writes of the book:

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For most of his life, Anderson Cooper intentionally distanced himself from the Vanderbilt dynasty his mother was born into. But after Gloria Vanderbilt’s death in 2019, Cooper began going through old journals, letters and Vanderbilt family documents his mother had stored away in long-forgotten boxes.

Intrigued, he began researching the public and private lives of his ancestors, and when his son Wyatt was born in 2020, decided to write a book to one day help him understand this fascinating branch of his family’s history. 

The story of the Vanderbilts is an American epic of achievement and excess—a saga of a staggering fortune built and squandered, of high society and salacious scandals, of public fame and private pain.

How to Get Tickets 

Tickets are $20 per person, or $10 for NHS members, and can be purchased using the link here.