Astor : the rise and fall of an American fortune / Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2023
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First edition.
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| Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Lucky Day Book (no holds) | LUCKY DAY BIO ASTOR | Check Shelf | ||
| Plainville Public Library - Adult Department | BROWSE | Check Shelf | ||
| Portland Public Library - New Materials | BIOG ASTOR FAMILY | Check Shelf | ||
| Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - New Materials | B ASTOR | Check Shelf | ||
| Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - New Materials | B ASTOR | Check Shelf | ||
| South Windsor Public Library - New Materials | B ASTOR c.3 | Check Shelf | ||
| Windsor, Wilson Branch - New Materials | B-ASTOR FAMILY | Check Shelf |
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First edition.
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| Description |
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical table ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I: Rise. New York, 1784 -- Astoria, 1810 -- Massacre Opera House, 1849 -- 840 Fifth Avenue, 1908 -- Waldorf-Astoria, 1928 -- Hever Castle, 1916 -- Part II: Fall. Rokeby, 1875 -- Halifax, April 15, 1912 -- Blackwell's Island, 1910 -- Mrs. Astor's Bar, 1910 to 1966 -- Ferncliff, 1952 -- The last Astor, 2013 -- Epilogue.
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| Summary |
"The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention--and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire through real estate that enriched him at the expense of Manhattan's poorest residents. In later generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society--Caroline Schermerhorn Astor essentially invented it--and got into the hospitality business with the legendary Waldorf-Astoria hotel, among others. Yet for all their unimaginable success, the Astors also endured crushing tragedy and reversals of fortune. John Jacob Astor IV perished in the Titanic disaster, its most famous victim. His cousin William Waldorf Astor renounced the United States. Rifts would split siblings and pit cousins against one another, legal battles would create irreparable divides, and mansions would be built and razed, or fall into disrepair. By 2009, when Brooke Astor's son, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother--who had herself married into the family for money--the Astor dynasty was effectively over. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and offer a window onto the making of America itself"--Dust jacket flap.
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Rise and fall of an American fortune
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| ISBN |
9780062964700 hardcover
0062964704 hardcover
9780062964670 electronic book
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