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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 fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other... read more
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First Sentence edit
At seventeen John Jacob Astor, founder of an American dynasty, left the German village of Waldorf, where he was born in 1763, and came to New York by way of London.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1. The House of Astor
2. Town topics
3. Inventor and novelist
4. Palaces for the people
5. "A new thing under the sun"
6. After the ball was over
7. Aladdin
8. "Mine! All mine!"
9. Baron Astor of Hever Castle
10. End of the line
Acknowledgments
Sources
Index
A section of photographs
Authors & Contributors edit
- Justin Kaplan (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0670037699
Page Count: 196
Publisher: Viking
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 0670037699
Page Count: 196
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 647.94097471
Subjects edit
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › Mid-Atlantic
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 19th Century › Gilded Age
- Books › History › Americas › United States › State & Local › New York
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 20th Century
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic History
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