Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
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By Cooper Anderson, Howe Katherine
Hardcover – English
A NPR Best Book of the Year
ISBN: 0062964704
EAN: 9780062964700
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS
Publication Date: 19/09/2023
Pages: 336
Dimension: 23.44cm x 16.10cm x 2.95cm
Age Group: NA to NA
Grades: Not Applicable to Not Applicable
Lexile Level: 0
Award: –
About Author: Cooper Anderson
Anderson Cooper joined CNN in 2001 and has anchored his own program, Anderson Cooper 360, since 2003. He had previously served as a correspondent for ABC News and was a foreign correspondent for Channel One News. Cooper has won several awards for his work, including an Emmy. He graduated from Yale University in 1989 and also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. He writes regularly for Details magazine.
Categories:
Biography & Autobiography – Business
Biography & Autobiography – United States – 19th Century
Biography & Autobiography – United States – 20th Century
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By Cooper Anderson, Howe Katherine
Hardcover – English
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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