The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story
by Frances Kiernan

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Summary of The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story

"Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life."?O Magazine

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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