This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs.
Astor would use this.
As the foundation\'s president, Mrs.
In a highly publicized courtroom battle, she fought off an attempt to break Vincent\'s will, which left $67 million to the Vincent Astor Foundation.
At the age of 51, Brooke Astor wedded the notoriously ill-tempered Vincent Astor, who died in 1959.
Astor\'s friends and the heads of New York\'s great cultural institutions, gives us back the woman so loved and admired.
This biography, based on firsthand knowledge and interviews with Mrs