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Mrs. Astor's New York: Money and Power in a Gilded Age
Mrs Astor's New York Money and Power in a Gilded Age
Author: Eric Homberger
Mrs. Astor, undisputed queen of New York society in the decades before the First World War, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy of unparalleled extravagance and exclusivity. Her story, which reads like a novel by Edith Wharton, sheds important new light on the origins, lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy, and i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300095012
ISBN-10: 0300095015
Publication Date: 10/1/2002
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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