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

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

Justin Kaplan

196 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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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 W...

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