When the Astors Owned New York-Biography and memoirs-買書書 BuyBookBook
When the Astors Owned New York-Biography and memoirs-買書書 BuyBookBook

When the Astors Owned New York

Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

Justin Kaplan (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Paperback / softback
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English • Age Adult - Adult
208 pages • 5.51 x 8.49 x 0.45 in
Approx. weight: 0.45 lb
Publication date: 26 Jun,2007
Barcode: 9780452288584 • Penguin Books
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
Biography and memoirs
  • Biography: general
  • History of the Americas
  • Local history

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By: Justin Kaplan  
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded Age.

Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in New York society, producing the grandest hotels ever seen in a marriage of ostentation and efficiency that transformed American social behavior.

Kaplan exposes it all in exquisite detail, taking readers from the 1890s to the Roaring Twenties in a combination of biography, history, architectural appreciation, and pure reading pleasure

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