When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age Hardcover – June 1, 2006 by Justin Kaplan
 
Traces the public and private lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, nineteenth-century heirs and rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic. 30,000 first printing.
 
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