Dead End Gene Pool

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

Wendy Burden, talks about growing up the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Her memoir Dead End Gene Pool is a glimpse into one of the wealthiest families in New York that, by the time of her birth, were seen as doomed bluebloods in financial and moral decline.

Event: Wendy Burden will be reading and signing books
Tuesday, April 6, at 6:00 pm
Corner Bookstore
1313 Madison Avenue

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