When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan

There is murder, treason, Medicis, and Tudors… you won’t want to miss it! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or Stitcher so you never miss an episode with all of my sporadic absences. Kaplan shifts his object from American letters to the business dynasty that helped. Storical is back with an all new episode about the messy life of Mary Queen of Scots. In 'When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age' (Viking, 24.95), Mr. Stuff You Missed in History Class - Lizzie Borden and Her Axe. The History Chicks - Lizzie Borden, Revisited. Hysterical History - Lizzie Borden Series. Links to all sources referenced and full transcript are below! Before you indulge in some tricks or treats, enjoy this episode and decide whether Lizzie Borden really took an ax to give her mother 40 whacks. As an outline it has enough information about the family and the lavish hotels they built to give a general reader the gist of their influence on the shape and. The veil is thin and the dead walk among us.

In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin KaplanPulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Mark Twainvividly brings to life a grand. Social Climber: The Iron Will and Determined Rise of Alva Vanderbilt by The Gilded Gentelman PodcastĮdith Wharton’s New York by The Bowery Boys PodcastĪ Well Behaved Woman by Theresa Anne Fowler When the Astors Owned New York by Justin Kaplan: 9780452288584 : Books. Tune in!Ĭonsuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mckenzie Stuart We will also take a look at her daughter Consuelo Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough.

Social climber, society leader, architect, suffragette.

Part two is all about multi-hyphenate Alva Vanderbilt. And no one did it better than the first families of excess, the Astors and the Vanderbilts. Gilded Age New York was all about flaunting your money.