The Second Mrs. Astor” by Shana Abe is the story of Madeleine Force, age eighteen, and John Jacob Astor, thirty years older. This is about their love, their courtship, their tragedy. It is ...

Upon boarding the Titanic, newlywed Madeleine Astor was in the midst of a scandal ... Although she gave birth to a healthy baby later that summer, the public’s interest in her after the tragedy ...

After the Titanic sunk with her husband John Jacob Astor IV aboard, Madeline Talmage Astor became a rich widow who often ...

Not long before the famed ocean-liner Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after plowing into an iceberg on a cold, dark night in 1912, the richest first-class passenger aboard — a longtime Palm ...