Beyond Fiction Book Club - Astor by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe
Schedule
Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
801 N Main St, Wauconda, IL, United States, Illinois 60084 | Wauconda, IL
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Join us to discuss this month's Beyond Fiction Book Club selection, Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. Books will be available to check out at the Adult Help Desk. If you need help acquiring a book, please reach out to Jill Morino at [email protected]. We look forward to reading and discussing with you!
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.
In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America—offering a window onto the making of America itself.
Register here: https://www.wauclib.org/event/bfbc-aug-placeholder-36337
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