The Astor orphan

Alexandra Aldrich offers her own words about growing up in poverty and yet living in a mansion on over four hundred acres of property--her father, the owner of Rokeby mansion, inherited the land, but not the fortune, of the Astor family. Aldrich explains how she managed to educate herself and find happiness in such a home, until her father began cheating on her mother, and how she escaped the Astor house.