The historic Biltmore Estate, an Asheville icon, works to recover from Helene damage toggle caption Sean Rayford/Getty Images The Biltmore Estate, the extravagant former home of the Vanderbilts and one of North Carolina's biggest attractions, was among the structures slammed by the remnants of Hurricane Helene last week. toggle caption Sean Rayford/Getty Images toggle caption Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images North …
NEW YORK — When Anderson Cooper was 6 years old, his father took him to see the statue of Cornelius “The Commodore” Vanderbilt near New York’s Grand Central Terminal. Now 54 and a father himself, Cooper has taken a second look and, with historian Katherine Howe, written the book “Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty” that explores …
On the Shelf The Fall's Biggest Nonfiction If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Oprah Winfrey called it “searing”, “powerful” and “needed.” Peril By Bob Woodward and Robert Costa Simon & Schuster: 512 pages, $30 Sept. 21 Closing out his trilogy on Donald Trump, Woodward is …
