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

Author Justin Kaplan

Format Hardcover

Publisher Viking Adult

Category United States History

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"Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other for social primacy for three decades. The two cousins, John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor, lived incomparably privileged lives in the blaze of public attention. Novelist, sportsman and inventor, survivor of turbulent marriages as well as the Spanish-American War, John Jacob went down with the Titanic. Collector of art, antiquities, and stately homes, William Waldorf became a British subject and acquired the title of Viscount Astor." "Real estate was their inheritance and their shared interest, and during the 1890s and after, the two feuding Astors built monumental grand hotels, chief among them the original Waldorf-Astoria."--BOOK JACKET.

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Justin Kaplan

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  • Release Date: 2006-06-01
  • Publisher: Viking Adult
  • Format: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780670037698

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