Astor Av Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

<p><p><strong>The number one <em>New York Times</em> bestselling authors of <em>Vanderbilt</em> return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.</strong></p></p><p><p>The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 po

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