Mrs. Astor Regrets, by Brooke Astor (June 1999)
Seated between two bores at a dinner party? Getting an earful of office gossip? With all due humility, a lady of impeccable manners—please call her Mrs. Astor—suggests some rules to put the “polite” back into polite society.
Be Slow, My Heart, by Brooke Astor (February 2000)
Flirtation has become a lost art, swept aside by the giddy pace of modern life. Recalling the stolen kisses of her youth, the watchful chaperons, and the assignations in hotel tearooms, Brooke Astor argues that the most delightful romance is one that takes its time.
Saving Mrs. Astor, by Dominick Dunne (October 2006)
The shocking allegations that 104-year-old Brooke Astor, jeweled and generous doyenne of New York society, was suffering neglect at the hands of her son and daughter-in-law burned up the wires between Park Avenue, Southampton, and Northeast Harbor. But Dominick Dunne had heard and seen clues that something was amiss.
In Mrs. Astor’s Shadow, by Vicky Ward (December 2006)
Since Brooke Astor’s grandson, her powerful friends, and her longtime staff alleged that the 104-year-old philanthropist’s son, Anthony Marshall, and his wife, Charlene, were taking advantage of her failing health, a New York court has removed her from the Marshalls’ care. The embattled couple tell their side of the scandal.
The Battle for Mrs. Astor, by John Richardson (October 2008)
From being queen of New York society and one of her century’s great philanthropists, Brooke Astor became America’s most prominent case of alleged elder abuse. With her son, Anthony Marshall, expected to stand trial this winter on financial charges, John Richardson draws on years of friendship with the late doyenne, and accounts of those closest to her, to document the fear and confusion that marked Astor’s final years.
Society on Trial (October 2009)
Anthony Marshall, the late Brooke Astor’s only child, was found guilty on October 8, 2009, of swindling his mother out of her famous fortune as she succumbed to Alzheimer’s disease in the last years of her life. The witnesses for the prosecution included a Who’s Who of New York society, all captured by court sketch artist Jane Rosenberg.
The New Astor Court, by Meryl Gordon (September 2009)
As a parade of New York society leaders took the stand, the jury in the Brooke Astor trial heard jaw-dropping testimony about Astor’s relationship with her son, defendant Anthony Marshall, and his wife, Charlene. But the real pyrotechnics were offstage. While talking to key players, Meryl Gordon uncovers an Oedipal plot twist that recasts the dynamics of this epic courtroom drama.
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