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Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty / by Cooper, Anderson,author.; Howe, Katherine,1977-author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index.Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts. 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 two empires-one in shipping and another in railroads-that would make him the richest man in America. His staggering fortune was fought over by his heirs after his death in 1877, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. Though his son Billy doubled the money left by "the Commodore," subsequent generations competed to find new and ever more extraordinary ways of spending it. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt was forced out of The Breakers-the seventy-room summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, that Cornelius's grandson and namesake had built-the family would have been unrecognizable to the tycoon who started it all. Now, the Commodore's great-great-great-grandson Anderson Cooper, joins with historian Katherine Howe to explore the story of his legendary family and their outsized influence. Cooper and Howe breathe life into the ancestors who built the family's empire, basked in the Commodore's wealth, hosted lavish galas, and became synonymous with unfettered American capitalism and high society. Moving from the hardscrabble wharves of old Manhattan to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, and all the way to modern-day New York, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American dynasty unlike any other. Written with a unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.; Subjects: Biographies.; Vanderbilt family.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877.; Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1794-1877; Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019; Businessmen; Millionaires; Railroads; Rich people; Socialites; Steamboats; Upper class families; Upper class; Wealth;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Casablanca [videorecording (DVD)] by Curtiz, Michael,1888-1962; Bogart, Humphrey,1899-1957; Bergman, Ingrid,1915-1982; Henried, Paul; Rains, Claude,1889-1967; Burnett, Murray;: Commentaries by Roger Ebert and Rudy Behlmer ; introduction by Lauren Bacall -- You must remember this -- Bacall on Bogart -- Additional scenes and outtakes -- Carrotblanca -- Who hold tomorrow from the 1955 TV series -- Radio production of Casablanca -- outtakes gallery -- Production history gallery.Screenplay by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch ; from a play by Murray Burnett, Joan Alison.Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt.PG.DVD.Winner of 3 Academy Awards.; Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; War films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;; © p2003., Warner Home Video,; Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 2; unAPI
Young titan : the making of Winston Churchill / by Shelden, Michael.;: Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude: the prime minister -- Introduction: the young titan -- 1901-1905. -- A new world -- A family affair -- Born for opposition -- The duke's smile -- Empire dreams -- The great rift -- Departures -- The bachelor and the heiress -- Fortunate son -- 1906-1910. -- Winners and losers -- The world at his feet -- Private lives -- The political maiden -- A place in the sun -- Best laid plans -- The castle -- Eminent Edwardian -- Sound and fury -- Life and death -- 1910-1915. -- Valiant -- Storm signals -- Armada -- The old man and the sea -- Wings -- Countdown -- Last stand.; Subjects: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.; Cabinet officers; Prime ministers;; © c2013., Simon & Schuster,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The glass ocean : a novel / by Williams, Beatriz,author.; White, Karen(Karen S.),author.; Willig, Lauren,author.;: "From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century--two deep in the past, one in the present--to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania. May 2013. Her finances are in dire straits and bestselling author Sarah Blake is struggling to find a big idea for her next book. Desperate, she breaks the one promise she made to her Alzheimer's-stricken mother and opens an old chest that belonged to her great-grandfather, who died when the RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915. What she discovers there could change history. Sarah embarks on an ambitious journey to England to enlist the help of John Langford, a recently disgraced Member of Parliament whose family archives might contain the only key to the long-ago catastrophe. April 1915. Southern belle Caroline Telfair Hochstetter's marriage is in crisis. Her formerly attentive industrialist husband, Gilbert, has become remote, pre-occupied with business, and something else that she can't quite put a finger on. She's hoping a trip to London in Lusitania's lavish first-class accommodations will help them reconnect--but she can't ignore the spark she feels for her old friend, Robert Langford, who turns out to be on the same voyage. Feeling restless and longing for a different existence, Caroline is determined to stop being a bystander, and take charge of her own life. Tessa Fairweather is traveling second-class on the Lusitania, returning home to Devon. Or at least, that's her story. Tessa has never left the United States and her English accent is a hasty fake. She's really Tennessee Schaff, the daughter of a roving con man, and she can steal and forge just about anything. But she's had enough. Her partner has promised that if they can pull off this one last heist aboard the Lusitania, they'll finally leave the game behind. Tess desperately wants to believe that, but Tess has the uneasy feeling there's something about this job that isn't as it seems. As the Lusitania steams toward its fate, three women work against time to unravel a plot that will change the course of their own lives. and history itself"--; Subjects: Historical fiction.; Lusitania (Steamship); Man-woman relationships; Shipwrecks;; Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4; unAPI
The misfits [videorecording (DVD)] by Huston, John,1906-; Miller, Arthur,1915-2005; Gable, Clark,1901-1960; Monroe, Marilyn,1926-1962; Clift, Montgomery;: Director of photography, Russell Metty; editor, George Tomasini; music, Alex North.Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift, Thelma Ritter, Eli Wallach.A group of cowboys and a young divorcee meet in the Nevada desert to try to find a new life.CHV rating: PG.MPAA rating: Not rated.NTSC 1. DVD video Dolby digital.; Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Cowboys; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;; © c2001., MGM Home Entertainment,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
From Russia with love [videorecording (DVD)] / by Bianchi, Daniela,1942-; Connery, Sean,1930-; Fleming, Ian,1908-1964.From Russia with love.Videorecording.; Shaw, Robert,1927-; Young, Terence,1915-; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.;: Photography, Ted Moore ; music, John Barry.Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Pedro Armendáriz, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya.An international conspiracy tries to kill Agent 007 by enticing him with a voluptuous Russian girl (Bianchi).Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation.; Subjects: Adventure films; Bond, James (Fictitious character); Feature films; James Bond films; Spy films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;; © c2007., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
Journey through genocide : stories of survivors and the dead / by Boudjikanian, Raffy,author.;: Includes bibliographical references and index."Darfuri refugee camps in Chad, Kigali in Rwanda, and the ruins of ancient villages in Turkey--all visited by genocide, all still reeling in its wake. In Journey through Genocide, Raffy Boudjikanian travels to communities that have survived genocide to understand the legacy of this most terrible of crimes against humanity. In this era of ethnic and religious wars, mass displacements, and forced migrations, Boudjikanian looks back at three humanitarian crises. In Chad, meet families displaced by massacres in neighbouring Darfur and Sudan, their ordeal still raw. In Rwanda, meet a people struggling with justice and reconciliation. And in Turkey, explore what it means to still be afraid a century after Boudjikanian's own ancestors were caught in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. Clear-eyed and compassionate, Boudjikanian breathes life into horrors that too often seem remote."--Provided by publisher.; Subjects: Boudjikanian, Raffy; Crimes against humanity; Genocide;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The good, the bad and the ugly [videorecording (DVD)] by Leone, Sergio,1929-; Eastwood, Clint,1930-; Wallach, Eli,1915-; Van Cleef, Lee,1925-;: Photography, Tonino delli Celli ; music, Ennio Morriconie.Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef.During the American Civil War, three men search for a buried fortune.CHV rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD Dolby digital.NTSC 1.; Subjects: Outlaws; Spaghetti Westerns; Western films; Motion pictures, Italian; Foreign films; Feature films; Video recordings for the hearing impaired;; © [1998], c1966., MGM Home Entertainment,; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI
The minority report : and other classic stories / by Dick, Philip K.,author.; Dick, Philip K.Short stories.Selections.; Tiptree, James, Jr.,1915-1987,writer of introduction.;: A collection of eighteen science fiction short stories features "The Minority Report," in which Commissioner John Anderton's clever use of "precogs," people who can identify criminals before they can do any harm, turns against him when they identify him as the next criminal.; Subjects: Science fiction.; Short stories.;; Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1; unAPI

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