Astor
The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
The follow-up to Vanderbilt, tracing the Astors from a fur trader's fortune through Gilded Age society to feuds, folly and decline.
The companion to Vanderbilt turns to the Astors, whose fortune began with a German immigrant’s fur-trading empire and New York real estate, and who came to define Gilded Age high society. Cooper and Howe follow the family through its social reign, bitter feuds and slow decline, using one dynasty’s arc to tell a larger American story about money, status and what they do to the people who inherit them.
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