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Title: Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
Author: Frances Kiernan
ISBN: 9780393057201
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 320
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : Hers is a story out of Edith Wharton. After a disastrous early marriage, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. As the foundation’s president, Brooke would use this legacy to benefit New York, where the Astor fortune had been made.
Brooke would personally visit each grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her one-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. This biography–based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Brooke’s friends and the heads of New York’s great cultural institutions–gives us back the woman so loved and admired, whose hands-on approach would inspire future philanthropists.
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