Cover of John Jacob Astor

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.