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The Hotel: A Week in the Life of the Plaza
The Hotel A Week in the Life of the Plaza
Author: Sonny Kleinfield
Considered "the world's most luxurious hotel" when it opened in Manhattan in 1907, the French Renaissance-style Plaza reserved 90% of its rooms for permanent tenants. (Today there are only four such residents--all elderly widows.) Rooms then cost from $2.50 to $4; now, the bottom rate is $175 and the Vanderbilt Suite is $4000 a night. Famous per...  more »
ISBN: 75106
Pages: 333
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
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this is a great read. The book goes through a week in the life of the plaza hotel. Much of it is a sociological study of human behavior, especially the wealthy.


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