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Vanderbilt
CNN anchor and New York Times bestselling author 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. Few names are as synonymous with wealth and glamour as "Vanderbilt." When Cornelius Vanderbilt, the teenaged son of a ferryman in New York Harbor who was born at the end of the eighteenth century, decided to go into business on his own, few would have believed that within six decades he would epitomize American wealth, magnate of a shipping and railroad empire that made him the richest man in the country. In the wake of his death in 1877, Cornelius's heirs bitterly fought over his estate, sowing familial discord that would never fully heal. The generations of Vanderbilts who followed lived lives of unimaginable excess, steeped in tides of success and failure. By 2018, when the last Vanderbilt left the Breakers--the summer estate in Newport, Rhode Island, his grandson and namesake Cornelius Vanderbilt II built--the family would have been unrecognizable to the Commodore. 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 remarkable 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 Staten Island to the lavish drawing rooms of Gilded Age Fifth Avenue, from the ornate summer palaces of Newport to the courts of Europe, Cooper and Howe wryly recount the triumphs and tragedies of an American family unlike any other. Drawing on never-before-seen documents and told from a unique insider's viewpoint, this is a rollicking, quintessentially American history as remarkable as the family it so vividly captures.
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Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
The United States has looked inward throughout most of its history, preferring to avoid "foreign entanglements," as George Washington famously advised. After World War II, however, Americans became more inclined to break with the past and take a prominent place on the world stage. Much has been written about the influential figures who stood at the center of this transformation, but remarkably little attention has been paid to Arthur H. Vandenberg (1884--1951), who played a crucial role in moving the nation from its isolationist past to an internationalist future.Vandenberg served as a U.S. senator from Michigan from 1928 to 1951 and was known in his early career for his fervent anti-interventionism. After 1945, he became heavily involved in the establishment of the United Nations and was a key player in the development of NATO. As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during 1947 and 1948, Vandenberg helped rally support for President Truman's foreign policy -- including the Marshall Plan -- and his leadership contributed to a short-lived era of congressional bipartisanship regarding international relations.In The Conversion of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Lawrence S. Kaplan offers the first critical biography of the distinguished statesman. He demonstrates how Vandenberg's story provides a window on the political and cultural changes taking place in America as the country assumed a radically different role in the world, and makes a seminal contribution to the history of U.S. foreign policy during the initial years of the Cold War.
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Vanderbilt
Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from CNN anchor and journalist Anderson Cooper and historian and novelist Katherine Howe.One of the Washington Post's Notable Works of NonfictionWhen 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.
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Bridget Vanderpuff and the Monster Mountain Mystery
Bridget Vanderpuff is the Best Worst Baker in the World. A recipe for fun with villainy, cake and sprinkles of silliness, heart and hope. Bridget and Tom travel to Butterälp to stay with Vivienne Velvete – the world’s finest chocolatier. But a horrifying monster is terrorising the villagers and the chocolate festival has been shut down.What's more, Le Choc - the world's most perfect bar of chocolate, kept in an alarmed, triple-locked room – has been chomped! Bridget and Tom must trace a track of confuddling clues and unravel their most fiendish plot yet.
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Bridget Vanderpuff and the Great Airship Robbery #3
Follow the brilliant Bridget Vanderpuff on another action-packed adventure as she sets off for Paris in this middle grade novel perfect for fans of The Great British Baking Show and Beth Lincoln!Someone has stolen Mr. Vanderpuff’s golden whisk! If Bridget and her new friend Stacy don’t find it by midnight, the world’s best baker will never mix again.And as the girls chase a chain of impossible puzzles through the secrets and shadows of Paris, Tom and Pascal find trouble in Belle-on-Sea…Can Bridget and her friends crack the case and save the bakeshop in time?
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Bridget Vanderpuff 1. Bridget Vanderpuff Y La Evasión Pantástica / Bridget Vanderpuff and the Baked Escape #1
Diversion, empoderamiento y misterio: ¡Bridget Vanderpuff, la nueva Matilda!Una nueva y alocada colección protagonizada por Bridget Vanderpuff, una niña con el potencial de conventirse en una mezcla de Matilda y Pippi Calzaslargas: valiente, independiente y muy segura de sí misma. Bridget vive en el orfanato de la señorita Agria, y hasta la fecha se la ha dado todo bien. Pero cuando por fin consigue burlar a la huraña señorita Agria y ser adoptada por el señor Vanderpuff, el bondadoso panadero del pueblo, descubrirá que es un cero a la izquierda haciendo pasteles. Y precisamente eso es lo que tendrá que hacer si quiere salvar al pobre señor Vanderpuff de la ira de la malvada señorita Agria y quedarse a vivir en su nueva y amada casa para siempre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe first in a hilarious middle-grade series about a whip-smart inventor and amateur sleuth with a taste for adventure--a recipe for fun sprinkled with mystery, villainy, silliness, heart, and hope.Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Ms. Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Ms. Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her. When kindly Mr. Vanderpuff arrives at the Orphanage in search of a child to care for, Bridget thinks her luck has finally turned. Mr. Vanderpuff is the village baker, and his shop is a world of wonders. But they soon discover that Bridget is absolutely terrible at baking. When Ms. Acrid returns for the ultimate revenge, Bridget must open the Locked and Secret Door, navigate Ms. Acrid's spiderweb of booby traps, and use her unique baking skills to save herself--and Mr. Vanderpuff--from certain disaster.
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Bridget Vanderpuff and the Ghost Train
Belle-on-Sea is getting ready for the Night of the Hungry Ghosts, the spookiest time of the year. Mr Vanderpuff's bake will be the centrepiece of the whole parade, but he needs a new creation and he’s totally stumped. To make matters worse, salty old seadog, Captain Lufty, and his Hat Rat, Barry, have warned that something is coming to Belle-on-Sea. Something terrible… When a ghost train is seen rattling into town, and people start to go missing – first the librarian, then the Mayor – Bridget and Tom begin tracking the train’s tracks, delighted to be in the thick of another mystery. Then the unthinkable happens: the ghost train takes Mr Vanderpuff! Someone – or something – is out to destroy Belle-on-Sea. But they’ve forgotten one important detail… This is Bridget’s town. Bridget must save the missing people from their perilous prisons, rescue the parade, and come up with an idea for Mr Vanderpuff’s Hungry Ghosts bake, before it’s too late.
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Bridget Vanderpuff 3. Bridget Vanderpuff Y El Gran Robo Aéreo / Bridget Vanderpuff and the Great Airship Robbery
Diversión, empoderamiento y misterio: ¡Bridget Vanderpuff, la nueva Matilda! Bridget Vanderpuff se embarca rumbo a París en otra aventura llena de acción, descifrando códigos en los museos y en la red secreta de panaderos. Alguien ha robado el batidor de oro del Sr. Vanderpuff. Si Bridget y su nueva amiga Stacy no lo encuentran antes de medianoche, el mejor panadero del mundo no volverá a mezclar. Y, mientras las chicas persiguen una cadena de enigmas imposibles a través de los secretos y las sombras de París, Tom y Pascal descubren que hay trampas esperándolos en Belle-on-Sea... ¿Podrán Bridget y sus amigas resolver el caso y salvar la pastelería a tiempo? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Fun, empowerment, and mystery: meet Bridget Vanderpuff, the new Matilda! Bridget Vanderpuff sets off for Paris on another action-packed adventure, cracking codes in museums and within the secret network of bakers. Someone has stolen Mr. Vanderpuff's golden whisk. If Bridget and her new friend Stacy don't find it before midnight, the world's greatest baker may never mix again. And while the girls chase a trail of impossible riddles through the secrets and shadows of Paris, Tom and Pascal discover there are traps waiting in Belle-on-Sea... Can Bridget and her friends solve the case and save the bakery in time?
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Bridget Vanderpuff and the Baked Escape #1
The first in a hilarious middle-grade series about a whip-smart inventor and amateur sleuth with a taste for adventure—a recipe for fun sprinkled with mystery, villainy, silliness, heart, and hope.Bridget Baxter is the very last orphan at the Orphanage for Errant Childs, left at the mercy of the awful Ms. Acrid and her foul-smelling fish sandwiches. Ms. Acrid's mission is to make Bridget's life a misery. But Bridget is more than a match for her.When kindly Mr. Vanderpuff arrives at the Orphanage in search of a child to care for, Bridget thinks her luck has finally turned. Mr. Vanderpuff is the village baker, and his shop is a world of wonders. But they soon discover that Bridget is absolutely terrible at baking. When Ms. Acrid returns for the ultimate revenge, Bridget must open the Locked and Secret Door, navigate Ms. Acrid's spiderweb of booby traps, and use her unique baking skills to save herself—and Mr. Vanderpuff—from certain disaster.Join Bridget as she dons her chef whites and gets the croissants at the ready… Baking isn't such a piece of cake.
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Bridget Vanderpuff 2. Bridget Vanderpuff Y El Tren Fantasma / Bridget Vanderpuff and the Ghost Train #2
Diversión, empoderamiento y misterio: ¡Bridget Vanderpuff, la nueva Matilda!Bridget Vanderpuff es una inventora superdetective que resuelve misterios y la mejor panadera del mundo.Es la Noche de los Fantasmas Hambrientos, la época más espeluznante del año... ¡Bridget y Tom tienen un misterio que resolver!Un tren fantasma ha llegado a Belle-de-Mar y la gente está desapareciendo.¿Podrán los abominables pasteles de Bridget ayudarles a resolver el caso antes de que sea demasiado tarde?ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFun, empowerment, and mystery: Meet Bridget Vanderpuff, the new Matilda!Bridget Vanderpuff is a super-detective inventor who solves mysteries and also happens to be the best baker in the world.It's the Night of the Hungry Ghosts, the spookiest time of the year... and Bridget and Tom have a mystery to crack!A ghost train has arrived in Belle-de-Mar, and people are vanishing.Will Bridget's abominable pastries help them solve the case before it's too late?
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