Innkeepers
Subtitle: the Astors and their palaces
By: Justin Kaplan.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Astor family; Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (New York, N.Y.) -- History; Hotels -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Description: Traces the lives of cousins William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, rivals who pursued separate ambitions, built the original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, and influenced social behavior before John Jacob perished aboard the Titanic.