Astor The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

eAudio - 2023

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 Gil...ded 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...

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Published
HarperAudio
Language
English
Main Authors
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
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Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size240 GB
Parts10
ISBN9780062964687
Release Date9/19/2023
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size239 GB
ISBN9780062964687
Release Date9/19/2023