When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Kaplan, Justin
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- Hardcover
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- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops toned.
- ISBN 10
- 0670037699
- ISBN 13
- 9780670037698
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NY: Viking. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops toned.. 2006. First Printing. Hardcover. 0670037699 . Tan paper quarter-bound in brown paper. ix, 196pp. Family tree illustration, black and white photo section, acknowledgments, sources, and index. Cultural history at its finest, a fascinating narrative that sparkles with wit and charm from start to finish. (from the rear jacket cover); 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
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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- Old Saratoga Books (US)
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- 57992
- Title
- When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
- Author
- Kaplan, Justin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Page tops toned.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670037699
- ISBN 13
- 9780670037698
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- 0670037699, Astors, Gilded Age, GRAND Hotels
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