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

Kaplan, Justin

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ISBN 10: 0452288584 ISBN 13: 9780452288584

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2007

Riassunto

Traces the public and private lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, nineteenth-century heirs and rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic. Reprint.

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A gem of a book . . . No one since [Henry] James has written with such ease and grace about the era of excess as Kaplan. (Megan Marshall, author of The Peabody Sisters)

Mr. Kaplan, a dazzling stylist, is perfectly suited to his subject: what Henry James lovingly called ęhotel civilizationę . . . [A] splendid book about a bygone age that has not quite gone away. (The New York Sun)

L'autore:

Justin Kaplan was an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain and Walt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He was a member of the American Academy of  Arts and Letters. He died in 2014.

Justin Kaplan was an editor, biographer, and author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain andWalt Whitman: A Life, among other books. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died in 2014.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0452288584
• ISBN 13: 9780452288584
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208