When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

by Kaplan, Justin
ISBN: 9780452288584
Availability:
$7.99
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780452288584

Available Offers

Pickup at {0} Out of stock at {0} Check other stores
FREE
Ship to Me
$3.99

Overview

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

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Kaplan, Justin
  • ISBN: 9780452288584
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.30 x 0.60
  • Number Of Pages: 196
  • Publication Year: 2007

Customer Reviews (0)

This title hasn’t been rated yet...be the first!