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(More customer reviews)I decided to buy the book after staying at the hotel last Summer, and I have to admit I was underwhelmed. The book gives some good background information, but the author's writing style drove me nuts. Way too choppy and not much flow. Also, it really is a puff piece without much meat.
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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--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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