Friday Explorations Read Aloud: "Astor" by Anderson Cooper, Read by Joseph Coté

Every Friday, at 11:00 am, on the library’s KZbin Channel and Facebook Page, the library will stream a brand new recording of local thespian, Joseph Coté reading aloud selections from a wide variety of fascinating and entertaining books of fiction and non-fiction.
For April 5, Coté will read aloud from Anderson Cooper’s book Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune.
Summary: The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune.
The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story-of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
From 1783, when German immigrant John Jacob Astor first arrived in the United States, until 2009, when Brooke Astor’s son, Anthony Marshall, was convicted of defrauding his elderly mother, the Astor name occupied a unique place in American society.
The family fortune, first made by a beaver trapping business that grew into an empire, was then amplified by holdings in Manhattan real estate. Over the ensuing generations, Astors ruled Gilded Age New York society and inserted themselves into political and cultural life, but also suffered the most famous loss on the Titanic, one of many shocking and unexpected twists in the family’s story. In this unconventional, page-turning historical biography, featuring black-and-white and color photographs, #1 New York Times bestselling authors Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe chronicle the lives of the Astors and explore what the Astor name has come to mean in America-offering a window onto the making of America itself.
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[@zHumanfactor]

Love this reading, my favorite so far. You sir, weave an equally good story in your presentation.

[@pratapanurag757]

Hey! KZbin recommended me this video on my feed and its really well presented!😊 Btw I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and also make highly engaging shorts out of them. It’s free, if you don’t see tangible results.

[@YoutubeVideoSEOService]

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[@josephcote3939]

Thank you for your note and recommendation. I have forwarded it along to the Programs Director, Julia Sagaser, at the Camden Public Library. Three years ago we were receiving viewings in the hundreds. I have now taken the low numbers these days too personally. Perhaps I could avoid doing that by doing SEO. Joseph