THE GILDED AGE: ASTORS VS VANDERBILTS PT. 2
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Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vanderbilts. Part two is all about multi-hyphenate Alva Vanderbilt. Social climber, society leader, architect, suffragette. We will also take a look at her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough. Tune in!
Photos
Vanderbilt Costume Ball of 1883:
https://www.antiquetrader.com/collecting-101/the-vanderbilt-ball-of-1883
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/consuelo-vanderbilt-2.jpg
Nonfiction
Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mckenzie Stuart
Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
Social Climber: The Iron Will and Determined Rise of Alva Vanderbilt by The Gilded Gentelman Podcast
Edith Wharton’s New York by The Bowery Boys Podcast
Fiction
The Gilded Age on HBO
The Social Graces by Renee Rosen
A Well Behaved Woman by Theresa Anne Fowler
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