9780452288584-0452288584-When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

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

ISBN-13: 9780452288584
ISBN-10: 0452288584
Edition: Reprint
Author: Justin Kaplan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780452288584
ISBN-10: 0452288584
Edition: Reprint
Author: Justin Kaplan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback 208 pages

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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age (ISBN-13: 9780452288584 and ISBN-10: 0452288584), written by authors Justin Kaplan, was published by Penguin Books in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, Rich & Famous, Leaders & Notable People, Economic History, Economics, State & Local, United States History) books. You can easily purchase or rent When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.02.

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In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly 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
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