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When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan

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

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Kaplan, Justin: - Justin Kaplan is also the author of Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. He is general editor of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to the novelist Anne Bernays. They have three daughters and six grandchildren, and live in Cambridge and Truro, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13 9780452288584
ISBN 10 0452288584
Title When the Astors Owned New York
Author Justin Kaplan
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2007-06-26
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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