Much to my family's annoyance, I read this on vacation and intermittently shared what I was learning about the Astors. (They politely nodded and resumed applications of sunscreen.) Author Justin Kaplan manages here to provide just enough entertaining details to make the book an engaging read stra...
Anne Bernays and Justin Kaplan, a husband and wife team, both New Yorkers, tell of their literary experiences in "the city". Ironically, the joint memoir ends with their move to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to escape some of the exciting turmoil that entranced them in earlier years. The book is mai...
L. Godkin, editor and founder of the Nation, recalled that American hotels had long been among the wonders of the New World. Impressed by their size and lavishness, some travelers from abroad came near to assuming that the natives lived in hotels and that “home life in a house was almost unknown ...