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The Collected Stories (Volumes One and Two)

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune, Andersoon Cooper and Katherine Howe animals The creation of this newA 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,