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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel Hardcover - 2019

by Julie Satow

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New York: Twelve/ Hachette, 2019. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 358 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with color amd black and white photographs. Its first guest, upon opening in 1907, was New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and over the next 100 years, the Plaza Hotel, on Fifth Avenue and 59th Street at the foot of Cental Park, became one of the most famous hotels in the world. It always radiated wealth and luxury but the true stories captured in this lively, definitive history also includes dark, hidden secrets: the cold-blooded murder perpetrated by construction workers in charge of building the hotel; how Donald Trump came to be the only owner to bankrupt The Plaze; the tale of the Indian tycoon who ran the hotel from a maximum security prison cell 7,000 miles away; the beatles first state-side visit; Capote's Black and White Ball.
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  • Title The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
  • Author Julie Satow
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Twelve/ Hachette, New York
  • Date 2019
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # E29371
  • ISBN 9781455566679 / 1455566675
  • Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Library of Congress subjects Plaza Hotel (New York, N.Y.) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018048170
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.471

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About the author

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist who has covered real estate in New York City for more than a decade. A regular contributor to the New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, the New York Post, HuffPost, and elsewhere.

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