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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age agents of change 000 people in the field—thatAuthor Contributor(s): Kaplan, Justin Publisher: Penguin Books Date: 6 26 2007 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin KaplanPulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twainvividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded Age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor lived incomparably privileged lives. For three decades around the