When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780452288584ISBN-10:452288584UPC:9780452288584Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCXV3MQPKD
When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780452288584ISBN-10:452288584UPC:9780452288584Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCXV3MQPKD
Justin Kaplan was an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2014.
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