The Second Mrs. Astor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Mrs. Astor write by Shana Abe. This book was released on 2021-08-31. The Second Mrs. Astor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After losing her husband on the RMS Titanic, Madeleine Astor, who is constantly surrounded by scandal, finds her status elevated to that of a virtuous, tragic heroine and must decide whether to accept the role assigned to her or carve out her own extraordinary path.
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story write by Frances Kiernan. This book was released on 2008-05-17. The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life." —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor’s friends and the heads of New York’s great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of 51, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent’s will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation’s president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her hundredth birthday, princes and presidents honored her, but in 2006 a grandson petitioned the courts to have his father removed as Brooke’s guardian. Once again an Astor court battle became the stuff of headlines.
The Astor Orphans
The Astor Orphans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Astor Orphans write by Lately Thomas. This book was released on 1999. The Astor Orphans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Archie and Amelie
Archie and Amelie - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Archie and Amelie write by Donna M. Lucey. This book was released on 2007-06-26. Archie and Amelie available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Filled with glamour, mystery, and madness, Archie and Amélie is the true story chronicling a tumultuous love affair in the Gilded Age. John Armstrong "Archie" Chanler was an heir to the Astor fortune, an eccentric, dashing, and handsome millionaire. Amélie Rives, Southern belle and the goddaughter of Robert E. Lee, was a daring author, a stunning temptress, and a woman ahead of her time. Archie and Amélie seemed made for each other—both were passionate, intense, and driven by emotion—but the very things that brought them together would soon tear them apart. Their marriage began with a “secret” wedding that found its way onto the front page of the New York Times, to the dismay of Archie’s relatives and Amélie’s many gentleman friends. To the world, the couple appeared charmed, rich, and famous; they moved in social circles that included Oscar Wilde, Teddy Roosevelt, and Stanford White. But although their love was undeniable, they tormented each other, and their private life was troubled from the start. They were the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald of their day—a celebrated couple too dramatic and unconventional to last—but their tumultuous story has largely been forgotten. Now, Donna M. Lucey vividly brings to life these extraordinary lovers and their sweeping, tragic romance. “In the Virginia hunt country just outside of Charlottesville, where I live, the older people still tell stories of a strange couple who died some two generations ago. The stories involve ghosts, the mysterious burning of a church, a murder at a millionaire’s house, a sensational lunacy trial, and a beautiful, scantily clad young woman prowling her gardens at night as if she were searching for something or someone—or trying to walk off the effects of the morphine that was deranging her. I was inclined to dismiss all of this as tall tales Virginians love to spin out; but when I looked into these yarns I found proof that they were true. . . .” —Donna M. Lucey on Archie and Amélie
The Astor Orphan
The Astor Orphan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Astor Orphan write by Alexandra Aldrich. This book was released on 2013-04-16. The Astor Orphan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Astor Orphan is an unflinching debut memoir by a direct descendant of John Jacob Astor, Alexandra Aldrich. She brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson Valley Mansion; and her brave escape from the clan. Aldrich reaches back to the Gilded Age when the Astor legacy began to come undone, leaving the Aldrich branch of the family penniless and squabbling over what was left. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs that bring this faded world into focus, The Astor Orphan is written with the grit of The Glass Castle and set amid the aristocratic decay of Grey Gardens.
