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Anderson Cooper is set to release a biography on Brooke Astor later this month. Author Meryl Gordon called out one 31-page chapter for citing her own Astor biography 39 times.
Meryl Gordon, author of a best-selling book on the Astor family drama, said she would have "expected more" from Anderson Cooper in his own book about the subject.
“Nobody believed this could be restored,” Nicholas Felix said. “Architects didn’t believe it. Realtors didn’t believe it. Even the attorney said I was out of my mind.”
The scion of a powerful South Carolina legal dynasty is charged with murdering his wife and son. It seems unbelievable, ghastly, and—as the news trucks roll in and Hollywood producers begin making offers—utterly familiar. Is the ideal of the “good family” broken, or have we always just propped it up to watch it fall, again?