When the Astors Owned New York - 9780452288584
Un libro in lingua di Justin Kaplan edito da Penguin Group USA, 2007
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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.
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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: When the Astors Owned New York
- Sottotitolo: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Justin Kaplan
- Editore: Penguin Group USA
- Collana: Penguin Group USA (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 26 Giugno '07
- Genere: HISTORY
- Argomenti : Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.) History Hotels New York (State) New York History
- Pagine: 196
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 133 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0452288584
- EAN-13: 9780452288584