The Astors - The Story of a Transatlantic Family

In the late eighteenth century a butcher's son emigrated to America from Frankfurt and made a fortune by trading in furs. His name was John Jacob Astor and he became not only the richest man in the newly-created United States, but the founder of a family which, from generation to generation, has played a conspicuous part in the Establishment of the two great English-speaking nations...