Who is on the cover of Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper?
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. The transportation magnate was America's richest man when he died in 1877, the 19th century equivalent of Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates. Why does Anderson Cooper not go by Vanderbilt? It's another world," Cooper said. Another world where the Vanderbilt name was synonymous with enormous wealth and privilege … a name that Cooper says he didn't want to be associated with: "