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Author | : Alice Macycove Perdue |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781500225025 |
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Alice Perdue worked for Brooke Astor and her son, Anthony Marshall, for twelve years. She has written a very readable, detailed and personal account of what happened in Mrs. Astor's world before and after she was manipulated into changing her will and legacy. The reader gets a unique look at this charming and spirited woman, a beloved and revered philanthropist who gave tens of millions of dollars to countless organizations in New York City and beyond, but ultimately became the best-known victim of financial elder abuse.
Author | : Meryl Gordon |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0618893733 |
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Gordon's powerful, poignant saga goes behind the gates of a powerful American dynasty--the Astors--to tell of three generations' worth of longing and missed opportunities, which ultimately led to the empire's unraveling.
Author | : Frances Kiernan |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2008-05-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393078841 |
Download The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Book 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.
Author | : Alexandra Aldrich |
Publisher | : Ecco |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780062207951 |
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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.
Author | : Brooke Astor |
Publisher | : Doubleday Books |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Brooke Astor was a sheltered sixteen when she married a young man she met at her first prom at Princeton. In a matter of months, she left her patchwork childhood behind and entered the world of the Roaring Twenties. That marriage and her own intelligence and ebullience caused Brooke Astor to grow up quickly and to make the most of what life had to offer to a witty young woman of charm and spirit. Today Brooke Astor sits on the boards of most of the important New York institutions, including the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum, the Pierpont Morgan Library, and the Bronx Zoo. She administers the Astor Foundation, which gives away a considerable amount of money each year. Footprints recounts the fascinating life Brooke Astor has led: her disastrous first marriage; her second, a fairy-tale romance cut short by the early death of her husband; and her third, to Vincent Astor, one of the richest men in America. The daughter of a career marine officer, Mrs. Astor spent much of her childhood in China. Since then, she has been all over the world and met many of the most famous and interesting personages of the twentieth century -- Cole Porter, Artur Rubinstein, Somerset Maugham, Harold Nicolson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Max Beerbohm. Footprints is a delightful book written with flair and wit. Brooke Astor is never afraid to laugh -- whatever the occasion -- and her attractive and lively personality shines out from every page.
Author | : Alfreda Murck |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tom Sancton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018-08-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 110198449X |
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An NPR Best Book of 2017 Heiress to the nearly forty-billion-dollar L’Oréal fortune, Liliane Bettencourt was the world’s richest woman and the fourteenth wealthiest person. But her gilded life took a dark yet fascinating turn in the past decade. At ninety-four, she was embroiled in what has been called the Bettencourt Affair, a scandal that dominated the headlines in France. Why? It’s a tangled web of hidden secrets, divided loyalties, frayed relationships, and fractured families, set in the most romantic city—and involving the most glamorous industry—in the world. The Bettencourt Affair started as a family drama but quickly became a massive scandal, uncovering L’Oréal’s shadowy corporate history and buried World War II secrets. From the Right Bank mansions to the Left Bank artist havens; and from the Bettencourts’ servant quarters to the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy; all of Paris was shaken by the blockbuster case, the shocking reversals, and the surprising final victim. It all began when Liliane met François-Marie Banier, an artist and photographer who was, in his youth, the toast of Paris and a protégé of Salvador Dalí. Over the next two decades, Banier was given hundreds of millions of dollars in gifts, cash, and insurance policies by Liliane. What, exactly, was their relationship? It wasn’t clear, least of all to Liliane’s daughter and only child, Françoise, who became suspicious of Banier’s motives and filed a lawsuit against him. But Banier has a far different story to tell... The Bettencourt Affair is part courtroom drama; part upstairs-downstairs tale; and part characterdriven story of a complex, fascinating family and the intruder who nearly tore it apart.
Author | : Dominick Dunne |
Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0345464109 |
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The last two years have been monstrously unpleasant for high-society journalist Gus Bailey. When he falls for a fake story and implicates a powerful congressman in some rather nasty business on a radio program, Gus becomes embroiled in a slander suit. The stress makes it difficult for him to focus on his next novel, which is based on the suspicious death of billionaire Konstantin Zacharias. The convicted murderer is behind bars, but Gus is not convinced that justice was served. There are too many unanswered questions, and Konstantin’s hot-tempered widow will do anything to conceal the truth. Featuring favorite characters and the affluent world Dunne first introduced in People Like Us, Too Much Money is a mischievous, compulsively readable tale by the most brilliant society chronicler of our time—the man who knew all the secrets and wasn’t afraid to share them.
Author | : Meryl Gordon |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1455512648 |
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From New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon, the definitive biography of Huguette Clark, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age socialites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospitals. Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage?
Author | : Denise Patry Leidy |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1588395715 |
Download How to Read Chinese Ceramics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Among the most revered and beloved artworks in China are ceramics—sculptures and vessels that have been utilized to embellish tombs, homes, and studies, to drink tea and wine, and to convey social and cultural meanings such as good wishes and religious beliefs. Since the eighth century, Chinese ceramics, particularly porcelain, have played an influential role around the world as trade introduced their beauty and surpassing craft to countless artists in Europe, America, and elsewhere. Spanning five millennia, the Metropolitan Museum’s collection of Chinese ceramics represents a great diversity of materials, shapes, and subjects. The remarkable selections presented in this volume, which include both familiar examples and unusual ones, will acquaint readers with the prodigious accomplishments of Chinese ceramicists from Neolithic times to the modern era. As with previous books in the How to Read series, How to Read Chinese Ceramics elucidates the works to encourage deeper understanding and appreciation of the meaning of individual pieces and the culture in which they were created. From exquisite jars, bowls, bottles, and dishes to the elegantly sculpted Chan Patriarch Bodhidharma and the gorgeous Vase with Flowers of the Four Seasons, How to Read Chinese Ceramics is a captivating introduction to one of the greatest artistic traditions in Asian culture.