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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune -- Anderson Cooper, Paperback

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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.

The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.

From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.

The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family's story.

In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America--offering a window onto the making of America itself.



Author: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Publisher: Harper Large Print
Published: 09/19/2023
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780063347687
Large Print

Product Tags:

19th Century, 20th Century, Anderson Cooper, Biography & Autobiography, Business, Harper Large Print, History, New York (N.Y.), Paperback, United States

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