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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age by Justin Kaplan (Paperback, 2007)

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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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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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PublisherPenguin Putnam INC International Concepts
ISBN-139780452288584
eBay Product ID (ePID)201977878

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Number of Pages208 Pages
Publication NameWhen the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
LanguageEnglish
SubjectHistory
Publication Year2007
TypeTextbook
AuthorJustin Kaplan
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
FormatPaperback

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Item Height215 mm
Item Weight215 g
Item Width139 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJustin Kaplan
TopicLocal History

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