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Beschreibung
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
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
Details
Empfohlen (von): 18
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780452288584
ISBN-10: 0452288584
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Justin Kaplan
Hersteller: Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 220 x 140 x 10 mm
Von/Mit: Justin Kaplan
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.06.2007
Gewicht: 0,204 kg
Artikel-ID: 121022035