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the Astors
The Astors made a fortune
from fur-trading and property (at one stage they were
reputed to be the largest slum landlords in the US). Like
Beaverbrook and Roy Thomson, some members of the clan
gravitated to the UK and gained a peerage for rescuing
newspapers such as the Times and the Observer.
studies
Richard Cockett's
intelligent David Astor & The Observer (London,
Deutsch 92) complements his Twilight Of Truth:
Chamberlain, Appeasement & The Manipulation of the
Press (New York, St Martins 89).
The creepy Nancy Astor
appears in James Fox's The Langhorne Sisters
(London, Granta 99) and Nancy: The Life of Lady Astor
() by Christopher Sykes. Derek Marlowe's Nancy Astor,
the Lady From Virginia (London, Weidenfeld &
Nicolson 82) is better value. Literary critic John
Halperin's Eminent Georgians: The Lives of King George
V, Elizabeth Bowen, St John Philby & Nancy Astor
(New York, St Martins 98) is clever but unconvincing.
The Sisters: Babe
Mortimer Paley, Betsey Roosevelt Whitney & Minnie
Astor Fosburgh: The Life & Times of the Fabulous
Cushing Sisters (New York, Random 92) by David Grafton
provides a perspective on the US Astors and William Paley
of CBS.
Derek Wilson's Astors:
Landscape With Millionaires (New York, St Martins 93)
is another respectful study. Norman Rose's The Cliveden
Set (London, Cape 00) is another study of the Astors,
the elite and appeasement during the thirties.
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