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

Kaplan, Justin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670037699 ISBN 13 : 9780670037698

Editeur : Viking Books, 2006

Synopsis

Used. Very Good conditions. May have soft reading marks and name of the previous owner.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Revue de presse :

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 æhotel civilizationæ . . . [A] splendid book about a bygone age that has not quite gone away. (The New York Sun)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0670037699
• ISBN 13: 9780670037698
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 196