Johan Jakob Astor left Germany for a flute-making business in London in the late C18th, and then moved to New York where he dealt in pianos, opium, furs and real estate: what glistered was indeed gold – lots of it. Inevitably there was tragedy – and even disgrace – as well as success.
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
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Cezanne in the Barnes Foundation
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If you want to read one book about inequality and its ramifications for all societies, now and in the past, let it be this. By a former Pulitzer winner.
Caste
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By the former UK Ambassador who had the unenviable task of explaining Britain and Brexit to the US president. He resigned, and wrote this book instead.
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In 1960, the author was the first black child to integrate into an all-white school in New Orleans. 60 years later, here is an impassioned call for racial equality.
This is Your Time
Paperback £8.99