Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Cooper Anderson, Katherine Howe

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

Cooper Anderson, Katherine Howe

324 pages first pub 2023 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography historical history
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The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention - and of cunning, determination, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor arrived in New York in 1783 a...

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