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When the Astors Owned New York
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In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan--Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain--vividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded 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 re…
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- Autorius: Justin Kaplan
- Leidėjas: Penguin Books
- Puslapiai: 196
- ISBN-10: 0452288584
- ISBN-13: 9780452288584
- Formatas: 13.7 x 21.1 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
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In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan--Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain--vividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded 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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19,17 €
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Išsiųsime per 12–18 d.d.
- Autorius: Justin Kaplan
- Leidėjas: Penguin Books
- Puslapiai: 196
- ISBN-10: 0452288584
- ISBN-13: 9780452288584
- Formatas: 13.7 x 21.1 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Kalba: Anglų
In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin Kaplan--Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain--vividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded 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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