Based on the New York Times best-selling book by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, Vanderbilt is an epic drama exploring not only the birth of an American Dynasty but of America itself. The arrival of Jan Aertsen van der Bilt as an indentured servant in New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s sets off a centuries-spanning tale, chronicling first the rise of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt from barely literate teenage ferryman to ruthless shipping and railroad magnate with an unquenchable thirst for money - and then his descendants, whose inherited wealth could not insulate them from their all too human desires and frailties. That is, until Gloria, the last of the Vanderbilts, rises above her family's complicated history, and personal tragedy to pave her own path as an artist and fashion designer.
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