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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
Justin Kaplan
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| #51763 in Books | Plume Books | 2007-06-26 | 2007-06-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.38 x.45 x5.44l,.47 | File type: PDF | 208 pages | Plume Books||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting If Somewhat Too Brief History Of The Astor Family|By R. J. Marsella|This relatively slimmed down version of the Astor family's rise to financial prominence frustrated as well as informed me. As an outline it has enough information about the family and the lavish hotels they built to give a general reader the gist of their influence on the shape and lifestyle of New|From Publishers Weekly|This frothy look at several generations of Astors by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain is custom-made for the Waldorf gift shop. The tightwad founder of the Astor dynasty was a butcher's son from
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.
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