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Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on February 8, 2007
Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khm011
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Justin Kaplan. When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and and Hotels in a Gilded AgeNew York: Viking, 2006. viii + 196 pp. ISBN 0-670-03769-9, $24.95 (cloth)

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Justin Kaplan's When the Astors Owned New York is a probing account of how and why the two cousins—William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV—spent much of their lives decorating Manhattan's skyline with grand hotels. Kaplan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twain, draws on personal papers, contemporary press accounts, and various literary works to locate the Astors in Gilded Age New York high society. The Astors built hotels not simply to make money, Kaplan contends, but also . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joshua A. T. Salzmann

University of Illinois at Chicago


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