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Last Mrs. Astor
A New York Story
Taschenbuch von Frances Kiernan
Sprache: Englisch

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The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. 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. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, Brooke fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left some [...] million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. 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.
The fabulous life of Brooke Astor, a pioneer of philanthropy and for decades a luminary of New York society. 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. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, Brooke fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left some [...] million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. 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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A former editor at The New Yorker, Frances Kiernan is the author of The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story and Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy. She lives in New York City.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780393331608
ISBN-10: 0393331601
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kiernan, Frances
Hersteller: W. W. Norton & Company
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Frances Kiernan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2008
Gewicht: 0,483 kg
Artikel-ID: 101930767
Über den Autor
A former editor at The New Yorker, Frances Kiernan is the author of The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story and Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy. She lives in New York City.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780393331608
ISBN-10: 0393331601
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kiernan, Frances
Hersteller: W. W. Norton & Company
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 210 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Frances Kiernan
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2008
Gewicht: 0,483 kg
Artikel-ID: 101930767
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