Download PDF by Justin Kaplan: When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels

By Justin Kaplan

ISBN-10: 0452288584

ISBN-13: 9780452288584

ISBN-10: 0670037699

ISBN-13: 9780670037698

In this extraordinary anecdotal historical past, Justin Kaplan––Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain––vividly brings to lifestyles a glittering, bygone age.

Endowed with the most important deepest fortunes in their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor vied for primacy in long island society, generating the grandest resorts ever visible in a wedding of ostentation and potency that reworked American social behavior.

Kaplan exposes all of it in beautiful aspect, taking readers from the Eighteen Nineties to the Roaring Twenties in a mixture of biography, background, architectural appreciation, and natural examining pleasure
 

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