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Education: Earned degree in political science and international relations from Yale University, Began at Channel One as a fact-checker c. Anderson Cooper hosts Anderson Cooper , an hour-long newscast on Cable News Network CNN that quickly accrued an audience for its intelligent, sometimes bemused take on the day's top stories. I think people get it.

They get how news is put together. Cooper possesses a rather impressive pedigree for a television journalist. His father, Wyatt Cooper, was a writer from Mississippi who married the heiress to one of America's greatest fortunes, Gloria Vanderbilt, in In her own youth, Vanderbilt had been the subject of a vicious, well-publicized custody battle, and as a young woman led a glittering social life that was also avidly chronicled in the newspapers of the day.

Wyatt Cooper was her fourth husband, and Anderson was their second child, born in two years after his brother, Carter. The family lived in Manhattan. Despite the family fortune, Cooper was determined to earn his own money. He began modeling at the age of eleven, and in his teens worked as a waiter at Mortimer 's, a famed Manhattan eatery frequented by Park Avenue society types.

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He was sent to Dalton, a private Manhattan school, primarily because his mother thought its emphasis on the arts over athletics would provide a firmer grounding. His father died when he was eleven, after a series of heart attacks in Cooper was able to graduate a semester early from Dalton and satisfied a wanderlust by traveling through Africa for a few months before he entered Yale University.

He earned a degree in political science and international relations in , but his senior year was preceded by a tragedy of almost unimaginable sorrow: his brother, Carter, who had been under treatment for depression, jumped out of the 14th-floor window of their mother's New York City apartment in front of her, and fell to his death.