aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end
and searching for connection wherever you can
The creation of this new government marked the moment that the East India Company ceased to be a conventional company and became something much more unusual: an international corporation transformed into an aggressive colonial power
“to find herself”—but what awaits her there may prove to be her undoing
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, Andersoon Cooper and Katherine Howe animals aspirational childhood in a seasideA 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,