John Jacob Astor

America's first multimillionaire

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John Jacob Astor

America's first multimillionaire

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Publisher
John Wiley
Language
English
Pages
304

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John Jacob Astor
2001, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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John Jacob Astor: America's first multimillionaire
2001, John Wiley
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Book Details


First Sentence

"At a time when most people lived and died within a hundred miles of where they were born, John Jacob Astor's birth in the German territory of the margrave of Baden-Baden was almost accidental."

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-306) and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
380.1/092 B
Library of Congress
HC102.5.A76 M33 2001, HC102.5.A76M33 2001

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
vii, 312 p. : ill., maps ;
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7616205M
Internet Archive
johnjacobastoram0000mads
ISBN 10
0471385034
ISBN 13
9780471385035
LCCN
00042273
OCLC/WorldCat
44172996
Library Thing
208495
Goodreads
1039772

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At a time when most people lived and died within a hundred miles of where they were born, John Jacob Astor's birth in the German territory of the margrave of Baden-Baden was almost accidental.
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