Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Impact of science & technology on society and lift beams and building

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And she somehow managed to jump out of the frying pan and into fame

Combining his compelling storytelling and humor

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‘An ambitious fusion of coming-of-age novel and gripping espionage thriller’ Financial Times

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Impact of science & technology on society and lift beams and buildingA NPR Best Book of the Year The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American storyof ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention. From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astors son,