Prologue. The Breakers: March 30, 2018 -- The tycoon: January 4, 1877 ; Van der Bilt: c. 1660 ; The Blatherskite and the namesake: April 2, 1882 ; Society as I have found it: October 22, 1883 ; Venetian princesses: March 26, 1883 ; American royalty: November 6, 1895 -- Failure is impossible: May 4, 1912 ; Down with the ship: May 1915 ; Standing in a cold shower, tearing up hundred-thousand-dollar bills: September 15, 1934 ; Living a Roman á Clef: November 21, 1934 ; Gloria at La Côte Basque: November 28, 1966 ; The last Vanderbilt: October 28, 1978, and June 17, 2019 -- Epilogue. Christmas Eve, 1930.
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