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The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
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The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
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The Astor Orphan: A Memoir
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She brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson Valley Mansion; and her brave escape from the clan. Aldrich reaches back to the Gilded Age when the Astor legacy began to come undone, leaving the Aldrich branch of the family penniless and squabbling over what was left.
Illustrated with black-and-white photographs that bring this faded world into focus,
is written with the grit of
and set amid the aristocratic decay of
.