Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded AgeA dual life story that reads as pleasurably as the best fiction but with all the intelligence of a first rate biography. . . . completely absorbing.Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire The granddaughter of the richest man in America, Consuelo Vanderbilt was the prize catch of New York Society. But her socially ambitious mother, Alva, was adamant that her daughter should make a grand marriage, and the underfunded Duke of