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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplanâ‚¬â€œâ‚¬â€œPulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twainâ‚¬â€œâ‚¬â€œvividly brings to life a glittering, bygone 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
Country USA
Brand Penguin
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2007-06-26
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780452288584

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