pstrongThe number one emNew York Timesem bestselling authors of emVanderbiltem return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.strongpp pThe story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.ppFrom 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the
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pstrongThe number one emNew York Timesem bestselling authors of emVanderbiltem return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.strongpp pThe story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.ppFrom 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.ppThe 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 emTitanic, em one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family's story.ppIn this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, 1 emNew York Timesem 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.pp
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