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The World Of Gloria Vanderbilt (2010)

by Wendy Goodman(Favorite Author)

3.88 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0810995921 (ISBN13: 9780810995925)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harry N. Abrams

review 1: One of the joys of using the library is getting to know my librarian, Peter Muckolsky, who has started recommending and reserving books for me. The World of Gloria Vanderbilt was a left field gem. Chapeau to her for building an extraordinary and rich life after a brutal childhood. I think more often than not people who grow up like GV - not only ridiculously wealthy but abandoned by their parents - turn out more like Lindsay Lohan or any number of wasted British lesser nobles - but Gloria Vanderbilt has built several successful businesses and her surviving children, including Anderson Cooper, are doing incredibly well themselves.
review 2: I gave this 3 stars, but that's an average as I'd give it 5 stars for pictures and 2 stars for the text.I was expecting t... morehis to be more of a traditional biography but instead it's more like a coffee table book with lots of pictures. The pictures were stunning, however, and there was still a lot of biographical information. I didn't know a lot about her years in between "poor little rich girl" and Anderson's mother, so that was really interesting and detailed. However, as the book went on, the last thirty years were really glossed over. Also, in the chapter on her design work, the author crammed in the sudden death of Gloria's husband and the suicide of her son, which I found a little tacky. As Gloria has already written several of her own autobiographies, one of which I've already read, I think I'll just stick to those and use this as a pictorial reference. less

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