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The Astor surname, one of New York's most significant family names for over a hundred years, is synonymous with American aristocracy, a term that defies simple explanation. Unlike Britain, where in fact the term aristocrat had a definite so this means, the brand new York aristocracy was "at best a metaphor for high social position or prestige in a country which had unequivocally turned down the mechanisms had a need to create and support an aristocracy on the Western european model." The defining marker for new world aristocracy was, at its key, money. While some families with accumulated cash took years to break in, financial fitness, alternatively than labor and birth or links (which could be gained through marriage) ultimately ruled the day.The immense prosperity that the Astor family accumulated, spent, and in many cases, offered away, in the family's heyday is difficult to comprehend. The next Astor to attain the shores of America, John Jacob, accumulated during his lifetime "a fortune that symbolized one-fifteenth of all personal wealth in the us." His children constantly inherited volumes that preserved their name as the "richest" or "one of the richest" in the us at the change of the twenty-first century. The German immigrant John Jacob Astor's goals, however, travelled beyond the accrual of prosperity. He developed a eye-sight that would sweep up Thomas Jefferson himself. Mutually, the men "would establish a democratic outpost on the dim, distant Pacific Coast.

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Publisher	Charles River Editors
Language	English
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DATE	2017-12
Author	Charles River Editors

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