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
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Rich & Famous
,
Leaders & Notable People
,
Economic History
,
Economics
,
State & Local
,
United States History
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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
Category:
United States
,
Historical
,
Rich & Famous
,
Leaders & Notable People
,
Economic History
,
Economics
,
State & Local
,
United States History
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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.
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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
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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