John Jacob Astor
Subtitle: America's first multimillionaire
By: Axel Madsen.
Publisher: John Wiley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780471385035
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-306) and index.