Publisher | Penguin Books |
ISBN 10 | 0452288584 |
Book Format | Paperback |
Book Subtitle | Blue Bloods And Grand Hotels In A Gilded Age |
About the Author | Justin daniel "joe" kaplan (september 5, 1925 in manhattan, new york city – march 2, 2014 in cambridge, massachusetts) was an american writer and editor. The general editor of bartlett's familiar quotations (16th and 17th eds. ), he was best known as a biographer, particularly of samuel clemens, lincoln steffens, and walt whitman. |
Number of Pages | 196 |
ISBN 13 | 9780452288584 |
Author | Justin Kaplan |
Language | English |
Book Description | 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. |
Publication Date | 1-Jul-07 |