When the Astors Owned New York

Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

Nonfiction, History, Americas, United States, 19th Century, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Justin Kaplan ISBN: 9781101218815
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: June 1, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Justin Kaplan
ISBN: 9781101218815
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: June 1, 2006
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

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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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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