Name: Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (en Inglés)
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Author: Cooper, Anderson ; Howe, Katherine
ISBN: 9780062964663

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Katherine Howe

Anderson Cooper

Editorial

Harper Paperbacks

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780062964663

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Siglo xix, c. 1800-c. 1899
Siglo xx, c. 1900-c. 1999
Biografía: negocios e industria
Historia de américa

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune (en Inglés)

Katherine Howe (Autor) · Anderson Cooper (Autor) · Harper Paperbacks · Tapa Blanda

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A NPR Best Book of the YearThe 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.