AstorAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 28 September 2023
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The number oneA New York TimesA bestselling authors ofA VanderbiltA return with anotherA riveting history ofA a legendary American family, theA Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of theA AstorsA is a quintessentially American storyâ?"of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astorâ?Ts son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society. The familyA fortune,A first madeA byA aA beaver trapping business that grew into an empire,A wasA then amplified by holdings inA ManhattanA real estate. Over the ensuing generations,A AstorsA ruledA Gilded AgeA New York societyA andA inserted themselves into political and cultural life,A but also suffered the mostA famous loss on theA Titanic,A one ofA many shocking and unexpected twists inA the familyâ?Ts story. In this unconventional, page-turningA historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs,A #1A New York TimesA bestselling authorsA Anderson Cooper andA KatherineA HoweA chronicle the lives of theA AstorsA and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in Americaâ?"offering a window onto the making of America itself.
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