This page could get quite long, but until I outgrow it this page, here is where I’ll collect my resources. Titles of books are hyperlinked to Worldcat.org – a site that can help you locate a copy of the book at a library close to you.
Books About the Vanderbilts
- Archer, Verley. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt, and Their Descendants. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1972.
- Auchincloss, Louis. The Vanderbilt Era Profiles of a Gilded Age. New York: Scribner, 1989.
- Andrews, Wayne. The Vanderbilt Legend; The Story of the Vanderbilt Family, 1794-1940. New York: Harcourt, ace and Co, 1941. [Available through Ancestry.com]
- Bayles, Richard M. History of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York From Its Discovery to the Present Time. New York: L.E. Preston, 1887. [available via Microsoft Live Books]
- Conkin, Paul Keith, Henry Lee Swint, and Patricia S. Miletich. Gone with the Ivy A Biography of Vanderbilt University. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.
- Croffut, W. A. The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune. London: Belford, Clarke, 1886. [Available full-text on Google Books].
- Goldsmith, Barbara. Little Gloria … Happy at Last. New York: Knopf, 1980.
- Hamm, Margherita Arlina. Famous Families of New York; Historical and Biographical Sketches of Families Which in Successive Generations Have Been Identified with the Development of the Nation. New York, London: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1902. [available @ Ancestry.com]
- Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962.
- King, Robert B., and Charles O. McLean. The Vanderbilt Homes. New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
- Kroplick, Howard. Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island. Arcadia Pub, 2008.
- MacDowell, Dorothy Kelly. Commodore Vanderbilt and His Family A Biographical Account of the Descendants of Cornelius and Sophia Johnson Vanderbilt. Hendersonville, NC (1700 5th Ave., Hendersonville 28739): D.K. MacDowell, 1989.
- Patterson, Jerry E. The Vanderbilts. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989.
- Rodengen, Jeffrey L. The Legend of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Fort Lauderdale, Fla: Write Stuff Enterprises, 2000.
- Stasz, Clarice. The Vanderbilt Women Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour, and Tragedy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
- Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie. Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt : the Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age. New York: Haper Collins Publishers, 2006.
Books Written by Vanderbilts (and descendants)
- Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt. The Glitter and the Gold. New York: Harper, 1952.
- Biddle, Flora Miller. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir. New York: Arcade, 1999.
- Burden, Shirley. The Vanderbilts in My Life: A Personal Memoir. New Haven, Conn: Ticknor & Fields, 1981.
- Conner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Those Early Years. [New York]: Turtle Point Press, 1999.
- Field, Frederick Vanderbilt. From Right to Left: An Autobiography. Westport, Conn: L. Hill, 1983.
- Field, William O., and C. S. Brown. With a Camera in My Hands: A Life History. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2004.
- Vanderbilt, Arthur T. Fortune’s Children The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: Morrow, 1989.
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius. The Living Past of America; Pictorial Treasury of Our Historic Houses and Villages That Have Been Preserved and Restored. New York: Crown Publishers, 1955.
- Vanderbilt, Gloria. A Mother’s Story. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1996.
Websites
- Tales of the Commodore: Cornelius Vanderbilt at 200. Reprinted from Vanderbilt Magazine, v. 77, no. 3. Available online at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/vrr/tales.shtml.
