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Splendid. . . . haunting and beautifully written. . . . This is a terrific book. Washington Post "An incredible story." People A dramatic tale expertly told of rapacious ambition, decadent excess, and covert and overt tyranny and trauma. . . . With resplendent detail, the authors capture the gasp-eliciting extravagance of the Vanderbilt Gilded Age mansions. . . . With its intrinsic empathy and in-depth profiles of women, this is a distinctly intimate, insightful, and engrossing chronicle of an archetypal, self-consuming American dynasty. . . . Irresistible. Booklist (starred review) Marked by meticulous research and deep emotional insight, this is a memorable chronicle of American royalty. Publishers Weekly A remarkably frank and tender undertaking. The New York Times on The Rainbow Comes and Goes "Meaningful, revealing." The Wall Street Journal on The Rainbow Comes and Goes Fascinating, forthright, philosophical, and inspiring, these mother-and-son musings on family, life, death, forgiveness, fame, and perseverance are at once uniquely personal and deeply human. Booklist (starred review) on The Rainbow Comes and Goes Cooper is a storyteller with plenty of heart. . . . A smart, soulful page-turner. . . . Strong stuff, and in Coopers hands, well told. People on Dispatches from the Edge His vignettes from the worlds horrorscapes rise above the swagger of many journalistic memoirs because Cooper writes with competence as well as feeling. . . . Intriguing. Washington Post Book World on Dispatches from the Edge

Anderson Cooper joined CNN in 2001 and has anchored his own program, Anderson Cooper 360, since March 2003. Cooper has won 18 Emmys and numerous other major journalism awards. He lives in New York with his sons. Katherine Howe is a novelist and historian of America. She holds a BA in art history and philosophy from Columbia and an MA in American and New England Studies from Boston University, where she also did doctoral work. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass, as well as the young adult novels Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen. She served as editor of The Penguin Book of Witches. She has appeared on NPR, National Geographic, Smithsonian TV, the Travel Channel, and Good Morning America. She lives with her family in New England and New York City.