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

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

Justin Kaplan

181 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Justin Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist Jo...

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