Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

"If J.J. Astor (John Jacob Astor IV) had survived, I’m not convinced life for him — even with all of his money — would have been so great.” In 1916, Madeleine married Brooklyn-society ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

"If J.J. Astor (John Jacob Astor IV) had survived, I’m not convinced life for him — even with all of his money — would have been so great.” In 1916, Madeleine married Brooklyn-society childhood friend ...