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When the Astors Owned New York

Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

By Justin Kaplan

By Justin Kaplan

By Justin Kaplan

By Justin Kaplan

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Jun 26, 2007 | ISBN 9780452288584

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Jun 01, 2006 | ISBN 9781101218815

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    About When the Astors Owned New York

    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

    About When the Astors Owned New York

    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
     

    About Justin Kaplan

    Justin Kaplan is an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He is a member of the American Academy of  Arts and Letters.

    About Justin Kaplan

    Justin Kaplan is an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He is a member of the American Academy of  Arts and Letters.

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 19th Century U.S. History

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 26, 2007 | 208 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780452288584

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 19th Century U.S. History

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 01, 2006 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781101218815

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    A gem of a book . . . No one since [Henry] James has written with such ease and grace about the era of excess as Kaplan. (Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters)

    Mr. Kaplan, a dazzling stylist, is perfectly suited to his subject: what Henry James lovingly called æhotel civilizationæ . . . [A] splendid book about a bygone age that has not quite gone away. (The New York Sun)

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