Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/730502to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Last Mrs. Astor: A New York Story Author: Frances Kiernan Narrator: Susan Ericksen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 21 minutes Release date: April 30, 2024 Genres: World Publisher's Summary: 'Kiernan's sharp-eyed biography brings back a woman who, far into her 90s, relished the dance of life.' —O, The Oprah Magazine This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs. Astor's friends and the heads of New York's great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired. At the age of fifty-one, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959. In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent's will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation. As the foundation's president, Mrs. Astor would use this legacy to benefit New York City. She would personally visit every grant applicant and charm anyone she met. At her 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.

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