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The #1 New York Times bestselling authors from Vanderbilt return with another gripping story 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's name has occupied a unique place in American society.
The family fortune, first built by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was later amplified by real estate holdings in Manhattan. Over the next generations, the Astors led Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the Titanic's most famous loss, one of many shocking and unexpected twists of family history.
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 the meaning of Astor name in America. – providing a window into the creation of America itself.
Anderson Cooper is a CNN anchor and correspondent for CBS' 60 Minutes. Cooper has won 20 Emmy Awards and many other major journalism awards. He is also the author of three number one New York Times bestsellers, The Rainbow Comes and Goes, Dispatches From The Edge, and Vanderbilt (co-authored by Katherine Howe). He lives in New York with his two sons.
Cooper will be in conversation with Katherine Howe. Howe is a novelist and historian of America. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane and The House of Velvet and Glass as well as the young adult novels Conversion and The Appearance of Annie van Sinderen, and her upcoming novel, A True Account , will be released in November 2023. She was also editor of The Penguin Book of Witches and The Penguin Book of Pirates. She lives with her family in New England.
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