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 dynasty, 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 and sweeping family saga, 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.
This definitive work of American history reveals the ambition, glamour, and shocking betrayals of a family that shaped a nation:
| ISBN: | 9780062964663 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2024 |
| Author: | Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe |
| Publisher: | Harper Paperbacks an imprint of HarperCollins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Genres: |
Biography: business and industry Biography: historical, political and military Memoirs History of the Americas Military history Local history Biography: general |
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 dynasty, 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 and sweeping family saga, 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.
This definitive work of American history reveals the ambition, glamour, and shocking betrayals of a family that shaped a nation:
Astor features in the following genres: Age groups: the elderly, Property and real estate, Biography: business and industry, Biography: historical, political and military, Ethnic studies, Social and cultural history, Coping with / advice about ageing, Biography: general, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Housing and property for the individual: buying / selling and legal aspects, History of the Americas
Astor is available in Paperback, Hardback
Astor was written by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe and published by Harper Paperbacks an imprint of HarperCollins
Astor has 336 pages
£13.49