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9780471385035

John Jacob Astor America's First Multimillionaire

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  • ISBN13:

    9780471385035

  • ISBN10:

    0471385034

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-01-30
  • Publisher: Wiley

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Author Biography

AXEL MADSEN has written fifteen biographies, including Chanel: A Woman of Her Own, Gloria and Joe: The Star-Crossed Love Affair of Gloria Swanson and Joe Kennedy, and The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors (Wiley). He lives in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(6)
The Hard Years
7(9)
Flutes and Miss Todd
16(6)
Into the Woods
22(13)
Politics
35(9)
Rounding Out the Century
44(6)
China Profits
50(10)
Realpolitik
60(6)
Punqua Wingchong
66(6)
Family
72(9)
The Good Ship Enterprise
81(9)
A Perfect Triangle
90(19)
Outbound
109(11)
The Hunt Journey
120(7)
No News
127(7)
Mr. Madison's War
134(20)
``So Long as I Have a Dollar''
154(14)
John Jacob Astor & Son
168(11)
Paris
179(16)
This Land Is My Land
195(19)
Estimable Grand-Papa
214(11)
The Bigger Picture
225(10)
Writing about It
235(9)
A Third Fortune
244(12)
Richest Man in America
256(10)
Heirs and Graces
266(29)
Notes 295(9)
Bibliography 304(3)
Index 307

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