Название: The Astors: The History and Legacy of One of the World's Wealthiest Families
Автор: Charles River Editors
Издательство: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1981280081
Год: 2017
Формат: EPUB, PDF (conv)
Страниц: 54
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.”