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Wider Net Book Group will meet in person to discuss Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper.
Wider Net Book Group is no longer facilitated by an Evanston Public Library staff member. The group will continue to meet on the third Monday of each month at 6:00 pm through the end of the year.
Do you enjoy reading a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles? Wider Net Book Group reads modern classics and contemporary fiction, biographies, history and other non-fiction titles.
Wider Net Book Group will meet in person in the Small Meeting Room (108) to discuss Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper.
"The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story—of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.
The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family’s story." - From the publisher
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