EAN: 9780062964700

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A NPR Best Book of the Year 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.

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