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The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
by Julie Satow
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 1455566675
- ISBN 13
- 9781455566679
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E29371
- Title
- The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel
- Author
- Julie Satow
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1455566675
- ISBN 13
- 9781455566679
- Publisher
- Twelve/ Hachette
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- hotels, new york city, landmarks, central park, plaza, trump
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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