Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 647.94747101
EAN num: 9780871316639
ISBN number: 0871316633
Label: M Evans & Co
Manufacturer: M Evans & Co
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 260
Printing Date: 1991-07
Publishing house: M Evans & Co
Sale Popularity Level: 785493
Studio: M Evans & Co
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This is a celebrity biography about a great hotel -- in fact, for millions of people across the land and countless more around the world, it is America's most famous hotel. Now approaching its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2006 on its Park Avenue site, The Waldorf-Astoria has been home to kings, magnates, presidents and many of the greatest cultural talents of the Twentieth Century. General Douglas MacArthur chose to retire in the Waldorf Towers; Cole Porter lived in suite 33A for many years, which Frank Sinatra paid one million dollars a year to live in after Porter died. 'The grand cities of the world have their grand hotels, the bed-and-breakfasts for the mighty and the moneyed. Ward Morehouse III explores one of New York City's grandest in The Waldorf-Asrtoria: America's Gilded Dream ... Morehouse writes of pleasures and scandals, of the hard facts of running a hotel and of its romance. The hotel comes off well in the hands of its appreciative Boswell and one will find 'The Waldorf-Astoria' to be a pleasant buffet.' - The New York Times, Sunday Book Review Section
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I took my chances buying this book though there were no reviews on it, and I lost. I wasn't able to finish the book. It bored me. It didn't hold my interest. I got "Life At The Top" also and I am sure hoping it will be better. I can't exactly pinpoint what I didn't like about the book except that it seems he wrote his chapters like magazine articles and then put them together as a book without noticing that certain names and things are already mentioned in past chapters. And there just wasn't anything to hold it all together, I guess it didn't go deep enough into the areas that would have interested me. But really, how can you write much of anything about a building, particularly one with so many comings and goings.
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