Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Collection carved by a German prisoner

carved by a German prisoner of war for the children of the British family with which he stayed after the fighting ended

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Collection carved by a German prisonerA 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,