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It’s My Privilege: Glorious Memoirs by the Very Rich
A look back at a time when the super-wealthy felt they had nothing to lose by letting readers inside their gilded corridors.
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Dec. 14, 2023
“Class consciousness takes a vacation while we’re in the thrall of this book,” Barbara Grizzuti Harrison wrote in the Book Review in 1985, in her evaluation of the heiress Gloria Vanderbilt’s memoir “Once Upon a Time.” To be clear, Harrison was referring to the class consciousness of the reader, not the author. Vanderbilt demonstrates perfect awareness throughout her book that most young children don’t play with emerald tiaras and alligator jewel boxes lined in chestnut satin, or rely on the services of multiple butlers, or lose count of their own houses. Harrison’s point was that Vanderbilt’s talent with a pen — and perspective on her own economic altitude — allowed consumers of her tale to suspend their envy and engage with the reality of growing up in opulent neglect.
Memoirs by the rich have always been major publishing events. Readers love to prowl wide-eyed through gilded corridors, and I am no exception. A cherished portion of my shelf is devoted to the self-accounts of Rothschilds, Vanderbilts, Rockefellers, Pells, Guggenheims and other names familiar from banks, art museums and city centers.
| 安德森·庫珀 Anderson Cooper | |
|---|---|
 庫珀，2010年5月 | |
| 出生 | Anderson Hays Cooper 1967年6月3日 美國紐約州紐約 |
| 教育程度 | 紐約道爾頓學校 |
| 母校 | 耶魯大學 |
| 職業 | 廣播記者 作家 脫口秀主持人 遊戲節目主持人 |
| 活躍時期 | 1990年— |
| 知名作品 | World News Now 聯袂主持（1999年－2000年） American Morning 主持（2002年） Anderson Cooper 360° 主持（2003年—） |
| 伴侶 | 班傑明·梅薩尼[1](已於2018年分手) |
| 父母 | 葛洛莉亞·范德堡（母親） 懷亞特·艾默瑞·庫珀（父親） |
| 親屬 | 范德堡家族 |
| 網站 | ac360 |
Mr. Cooper worked with an architect to subdivide the four-story, warehouselike space into rooms. Both the spiral staircase and the fireman’s pole were preserved. But now, a wide staircase zigzags upstairs. The wall next to the main staircase serves as a gallery of his mother’s paintings, as well as portraits of her signed by well-
Maansi Srivastava/The New York Timesknown photographers.
Vitra Fire Station, Weil Am Rein, Germany, 1994
One of Hadid's enduring inspirations has been the early 20th century Suprematist art of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, with its rejection of single-point perspective, airborne shards and multiple vanishing points, which she managed to translate into genuine architectural forms. You can find their influence — and maybe also a nod to the massive steel plate sculpture of Richard Serra — in the thrusting, angular planes of her first completed building, a firehouse on the manufacturing campus of Vitra, a furniture company known for commissioning buildings by significant architects like Hadid, Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.
One of Hadid's enduring inspirations has been the early 20th century Suprematist art of Kazimir Malevich and El Lissitzky, with its rejection of single-point perspective, airborne shards and multiple vanishing points, which she managed to translate into genuine architectural forms. You can find their influence — and maybe also a nod to the massive steel plate sculpture of Richard Serra — in the thrusting, angular planes of her first completed building, a firehouse on the manufacturing campus of Vitra, a furniture company known for commissioning buildings by significant architects like Hadid, Frank Gehry and Tadao Ando.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1985954_2131979,00.html#ixzz0mdW3pxf8
firehouse
See also: fire house
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English firhous, fyrehous, from Old English fȳrhūs (“a fire-house, a room with a fire; furnace”), equivalent to fire + house. Compare Icelandic eldhús (“kitchen”).
Noun[edit]
firehouse (plural firehouses)
- (dialectal) A house containing a fire to heat it; a dwelling-house, as opposed to a barn, a stable, or other outhouse.
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
firehouse (plural firehouses)
- (US, firefighting) A fire station
Anderson Cooper, 母親范德比（Gloria Vanderbilt 1925~2019）Vanderbilt 家族, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
2019
不屑繼承60億家產 CNN帥主播稱「詛咒」
安德森庫柏出身顯赫家庭，名媛媽媽范德比（左）擁有運輸及牛仔褲事業，身家高達台幣60億元。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 2014-04-24 10:41 〔本報訊〕知名CNN型男主播安德森庫柏（Anderson Cooper）家世顯赫，他的母親出身美國運輸大亨家族，身家高達2億美元（約等同於新台幣60億元），但他不屑繼承家族遺產，直斥這是一種「詛咒」，白手起家才有生活的意義。
安德森庫柏每年靠自己工作賺進1100萬美元（約等同於新台幣3億3千萬）。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 庫柏的曾曾曾外公以船運與鐵路致富，小時候家裡常有安迪沃荷、查理卓別林等名人到訪，他的母親范德比（Gloria Vanderbilt）除繼承家族遺產，還是知名牛仔褲設計師，身家高達台幣60億元，但庫柏表示，「我媽賺的錢比她繼承的還多，我們都勤奮工作。」
庫柏指出，家裡遺留的財富，他一毛也不要，「有哪些繼承大筆遺產的人，能在自己的人生幹出一番事業來的？如果知道將來會有一大筆金銀財寶等著給我，我不知道人生還有什麼動力。」
46歲的庫柏目前是CNN當家主播，綽號「銀狐」的他，擁有一頭銀白色短髮及湛藍眼珠，每年靠自己工作賺進1100萬美元（約等同於新台幣3億3千萬），目前住在紐約的高級住宅區，並在長島擁有兩棟度假別墅。
アルフレッド・グウィン・ヴァンダービルト（Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 1877年10月20日 ニューヨーク - 1915年5月7日大西洋）は、アメリカ合衆国の富豪ヴァンダービルト家の相続人の1人。鉄道王コーネリアス・ヴァンダービルト（1世）の曾孫。ドイツ海軍の潜水艦「U-20」による船舶ルシタニア号沈没事件の犠牲者となった。
脚注[編集]
^ Vanderbilt, Arthur T., II (1989). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07279-8.
^ Preston, Diane (May 2002), Torpedoed! The Sinking of the Lusitania, Smithsonian Magazine, pp. 64–65
In the news
1901: The Wreck of the Lusitania
New York Times - 2 hours ago When the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast in 1915, ...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, perhaps the most widely known man amongst those who were the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German torpedo, left an estate valued at a little more than £5,000,000 (writes the Wellington Post's San Francisco correspondent).
At one time he had been in the neighbourhood of £9,000,000 but in his lifetime he gave away the difference between the two sums to his first wife, when she divorced him, and to his brother Cornelius.
The latter had been left a comparatively small legacy by his father because he married against his parent's wishes. All the members of the family united to make the legacy of Cornelius equal to that of the other children, and to this purpose Alfred Vanderbilt donated £1,120,000.
The second wife and widow of Alfred Vanderbilt receives about £1,600,000 under the will. She is one of the most beautiful women in America. Before her marriage to Mr Vanderbilt she was the wife of Dr Smith H. McKim, of Philadelphia.
She and Mr Vanderbilt became infatuated with each other. Both were married at the time. Two divorces were necessary to clear the way to their union.
Liberal provision is made in the will for the children of both marriages, but the second family get somewhat the larger share. There is no bequest in the will to any religious, charitable, or educational establishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gwynne_Vanderbilt_I
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I
Born October 20, 1877
New York City, New York, United States
Died May 7, 1915 (aged 37)
Atlantic Ocean
Political party Republican
Children William Henry Vanderbilt III
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.
George Washington Vanderbilt III
Parent(s) Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899)
Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1845–1934)
讀者可查美國的Vanderbilt家族......
Another building gone long from NYC
The Vanderbilt family built a number of mansions on Fifth Avenue in the 1880s. The home pictured here, at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, belonged to Cornelius Vanderbilt II. It was the largest private residence ever constructed in Manhattan.
See the link below for more of NYC past architecture⋯⋯https://amp.insider.com/old-new-york-city-buildings-2016-6
Yale University
“When you’re fearful, it often leads to a paralysis.... It was a very liberating moment when I realized I just need to plunge headfirst into the stuff that scares me.” — Anderson Cooper spoke at Battell Chapel after receiving the 2016 Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award from Yale College Council
Journalist Anderson Cooper receives Lifetime Achievement Award from YCC
NEWS.YALE.EDU
Gloria Vanderbilt custody battle: 'Poor little rich girl' torn between a ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../poor-little-rich-girl-gloria-vanderbil... -
15 小時前 - 'Poor little rich girl': Gloria Vanderbilt was caught between a neglectful ... Gloria Vanderbilt, accompanied by a bodyguard, a nurse and a ...
poor little rich girl - National Post
https://nationalpost.com/.../gloria-vanderbilt-model-actress-socialite-who... -
- Gloria Vanderbilt, the “poor little rich girl” who fascinated the nation during a scandal-tinged custody trial in the 1930s, became one of the most ...
Gloria Vanderbilt obituary | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/gloria-vanderbilt-obituary
- Gloria Vanderbilt, the original “poor little rich girl”, inherited vast family wealth at the high price of a loveless childhood and later made her own ...
2019
不屑繼承60億家產 CNN帥主播稱「詛咒」
安德森庫柏出身顯赫家庭，名媛媽媽范德比（左）擁有運輸及牛仔褲事業，身家高達台幣60億元。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 2014-04-24 10:41 〔本報訊〕知名CNN型男主播安德森庫柏（Anderson Cooper）家世顯赫，他的母親出身美國運輸大亨家族，身家高達2億美元（約等同於新台幣60億元），但他不屑繼承家族遺產，直斥這是一種「詛咒」，白手起家才有生活的意義。 安德森庫柏每年靠自己工作賺進1100萬美元（約等同於新台幣3億3千萬）。（圖擷取自每日郵報） 庫柏的曾曾曾外公以船運與鐵路致富，小時候家裡常有安迪沃荷、查理卓別林等名人到訪，他的母親范德比（Gloria Vanderbilt）除繼承家族遺產，還是知名牛仔褲設計師，身家高達台幣60億元，但庫柏表示，「我媽賺的錢比她繼承的還多，我們都勤奮工作。」庫柏指出，家裡遺留的財富，他一毛也不要，「有哪些繼承大筆遺產的人，能在自己的人生幹出一番事業來的？如果知道將來會有一大筆金銀財寶等著給我，我不知道人生還有什麼動力。」
46歲的庫柏目前是CNN當家主播，綽號「銀狐」的他，擁有一頭銀白色短髮及湛藍眼珠，每年靠自己工作賺進1100萬美元（約等同於新台幣3億3千萬），目前住在紐約的高級住宅區，並在長島擁有兩棟度假別墅。
アルフレッド・グウィン・ヴァンダービルト（Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 1877年10月20日 ニューヨーク - 1915年5月7日大西洋）は、アメリカ合衆国の富豪ヴァンダービルト家の相続人の1人。鉄道王コーネリアス・ヴァンダービルト（1世）の曾孫。ドイツ海軍の潜水艦「U-20」による船舶ルシタニア号沈没事件の犠牲者となった。
脚注[編集]
^ Vanderbilt, Arthur T., II (1989). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0-688-07279-8.
^ Preston, Diane (May 2002), Torpedoed! The Sinking of the Lusitania, Smithsonian Magazine, pp. 64–65
In the news
1901: The Wreck of the Lusitania
New York Times - 2 hours ago When the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast in 1915, ...
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, perhaps the most widely known man amongst those who were the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania by a German torpedo, left an estate valued at a little more than £5,000,000 (writes the Wellington Post's San Francisco correspondent).
At one time he had been in the neighbourhood of £9,000,000 but in his lifetime he gave away the difference between the two sums to his first wife, when she divorced him, and to his brother Cornelius.
The latter had been left a comparatively small legacy by his father because he married against his parent's wishes. All the members of the family united to make the legacy of Cornelius equal to that of the other children, and to this purpose Alfred Vanderbilt donated £1,120,000.
The second wife and widow of Alfred Vanderbilt receives about £1,600,000 under the will. She is one of the most beautiful women in America. Before her marriage to Mr Vanderbilt she was the wife of Dr Smith H. McKim, of Philadelphia.
She and Mr Vanderbilt became infatuated with each other. Both were married at the time. Two divorces were necessary to clear the way to their union.
Liberal provision is made in the will for the children of both marriages, but the second family get somewhat the larger share. There is no bequest in the will to any religious, charitable, or educational establishment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Gwynne_Vanderbilt_I
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I
Born October 20, 1877
New York City, New York, United States
Died May 7, 1915 (aged 37)
Atlantic Ocean
Political party Republican
Children William Henry Vanderbilt III
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr.
George Washington Vanderbilt III
Parent(s) Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899)
Alice Claypoole Gwynne (1845–1934)
讀者可查美國的Vanderbilt家族......
Another building gone long from NYC
The Vanderbilt family built a number of mansions on Fifth Avenue in the 1880s. The home pictured here, at 57th Street and Fifth Avenue, belonged to Cornelius Vanderbilt II. It was the largest private residence ever constructed in Manhattan.
See the link below for more of NYC past architecture⋯⋯https://amp.insider.com/old-new-york-city-buildings-2016-6
Yale University
“When you’re fearful, it often leads to a paralysis.... It was a very liberating moment when I realized I just need to plunge headfirst into the stuff that scares me.” — Anderson Cooper spoke at Battell Chapel after receiving the 2016 Yale Undergraduates’ Lifetime Achievement Award from Yale College Council
Journalist Anderson Cooper receives Lifetime Achievement Award from YCC
NEWS.YALE.EDU
Gloria Vanderbilt custody battle: 'Poor little rich girl' torn between a ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../poor-little-rich-girl-gloria-vanderbil... -
15 小時前 - 'Poor little rich girl': Gloria Vanderbilt was caught between a neglectful ... Gloria Vanderbilt, accompanied by a bodyguard, a nurse and a ...
poor little rich girl - National Post
https://nationalpost.com/.../gloria-vanderbilt-model-actress-socialite-who... -
- Gloria Vanderbilt, the “poor little rich girl” who fascinated the nation during a scandal-tinged custody trial in the 1930s, became one of the most ...
Gloria Vanderbilt obituary | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/gloria-vanderbilt-obituary
- Gloria Vanderbilt, the original “poor little rich girl”, inherited vast family wealth at the high price of a loveless childhood and later made her own ...
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