Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook. Compact discs. Read by Anderson Cooper.
Summary:
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. 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.
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