Book 2001
John Jacob Astor
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Biography & Autobiography
- Nonfiction
- Economic conditions
- Businesspeople
- Biography
- Businesspeople, biography
- Gens d'affaires
- Biographies
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.