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

This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Justin Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure

Endowed with the largest private fortune…

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