Non­fic­tion

The Astor Orphan: A Memior

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May 13, 2013
Heir to the Astor lega­cy, Alexan­dra Aldrich, tells the sto­ry of her eccen­tric, frac­tured fam­i­ly; her child­hood, over­shad­owed by the fam­i­ly’s glo­ri­ous past, spent in the squalid attic of the fam­i­ly’s Hud­son Val­ley Man­sion; and her escape from the clan. 

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