Julie Satow
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the moment in 1907 when New York millionaire Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt strode through the Plaza Hotel's revolving doors to become its first guest, to the afternoon in 2007 when a mysterious Russian oligarch paid a record price for the hotel's largest penthouse, the eighteen-story white marble edifice at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fifty-Ninth Street has radiated wealth and luxury. For some, the hotel evokes images of F. Scott Fitzgerald frolicking...