| When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age Contributor(s): Kaplan, Justin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452288584 ISBN-13: 9780452288584 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2007 Annotation: This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure, as he looks at the Astor familys dynasty and its contributions to the city of New York. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (dc, De, Md, Nj, Ny, Pa) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 647.940 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - New York, N.Y. - Geographic Orientation - New York - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |