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The Astors The History and Legacy of One of the World's Wealthiest Families
Author: Charles River Editors
Year: 2017
Number of pages: 54
Format: EPUB | PDF CONV
File size: 2,8 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2017
Number of pages: 54
Format: EPUB | PDF CONV
File size: 2,8 MB
Language: ENG
The Astor surname, one of New York’s most important family names for over a century, is synonymous with American aristocracy, a term that defies simple definition. Unlike Britain, where the term aristocrat had a definite meaning, the New York aristocracy was “at best a metaphor for high social status or prestige in a nation which had unequivocally rejected the mechanisms needed to create and sustain an aristocracy on the European model.”