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Summary: "The story of the Astors is an extraordinary but true tale of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention -- and of cunning, determination, hard work, hubris, infighting, and greed. One of the wealthiest men to have ever lived, John Jacob Astor first arrived in New York in 1783 and built a fortune through a ruthless expansion of his beaver trapping business, which he grew into an empire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Anderson Cooper chronicles the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty--his mother's family--the Vanderbilts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021