![]() After Marshall’s death, she quickly married Vincent Astor and though it was a brief marriage ending in his death, it seems to have been a mutually pleasant arrangement. She considered her next husband, Charles Henry Marshall with whom she produced only child, Anthony Marshall, the love of her life. She had an objective look at the man and his second wife, Charlene, that laid parallel with the impressions of her interviewees.Īs with the previously reviewed book by Gordon Phantom of Fifth Avenue, Gordon starts with the early life of Brooke Russell and her marriage as a very young person alleged abusive womanizer, John Dryden Kuser. Meryl Gordon is a well-respected journalist who interviewed Ambassador Marshall prior to the intervention of her friends to wrest guardianship from him. Readers are left to head to Google to find out what happened to Anthony Marshall, who did not share longevity with his mother. ![]() Let me address the most obvious problem first the book ends with a statement that as of the writing of the work, the trial goes on. Her worried grandson approached her dear friends, Annette de la Renta and David Rockefeller for advice and what transpired in the aftermath of that meeting was more than any of them could have imagined. Instead, as Alzheimer descended, the C entenarian was living under the guardianship of her son, Anthony Marshall, and living in squalor. Astor Regrets by Meryl Gordon, her twilight years should have been comfortable and uneventful. Brooke Astor lived a rich and adventurous life. ![]()
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