Astor

The number oneNew York Timesbestselling authors ofVanderbiltreturn with anotherriveting history ofa legendary American family, theAstors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of theAstorsis 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 B...