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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel by Julie Satow: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Pages
- 384
- Publication Date
- 2019-06-04
- ISBN
- 9781455566679
- Book Title
- Plaza : the Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Travel, Architecture, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Real Estate / Commercial, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1455566675
ISBN-13
9781455566679
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038371696
Product Key Features
Book Title
Plaza : the Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Real Estate / Commercial, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Buildings / Landmarks & Monuments, Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Architecture, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-048170
Reviews
"Julie Satow's THE PLAZA expertly shows not only the characters and events that shaped one of New York's most iconic landmarks but how it became a plaything of a global class of uber-wealthy whose questionable finances often ran through tax havens and Swiss bank accounts."-- Jake Bernstein, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Secrecy World
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
917.47106
Synopsis
Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today's Billionaire Row. From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the eighteen-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street has radiated wealth and luxury. For some, the hotel evokes images of F. Scott Fitzgerald frolicking in the Pulitzer Fountain, or Eloise, the impish young guest who pours water down the mail chute. But the true stories captured in THE PLAZA also include dark, hidden secrets: the cold-blooded murder perpetrated by the construction workers in charge of building the hotel, how Donald J. Trump came to be the only owner to ever bankrupt the Plaza, and the tale of the disgraced Indian tycoon who ran the hotel from a maximum-security prison cell, 7,000 miles away in Delhi. In this definitive history, award-winning journalist Julie Satow not only pulls back the curtain on Truman Capote's Black and White Ball and The Beatles' first stateside visit-she also follows the money trail. THE PLAZA reveals how a handful of rich, dowager widows were the financial lifeline that saved the hotel during the Great Depression, and how, today, foreign money and anonymous shell companies have transformed iconic guest rooms into condominiums that shield ill-gotten gains-hollowing out parts of the hotel as well as the city around it. THE PLAZA is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.
LC Classification Number
TX941.P58S28 2019
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- Jun 20, 2019
a must read if you are from NYC
Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: tnewerainc2
- Jul 29, 2020
Great history of ownership and tenants
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