When the Astors Owned New York

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First published in the United States of America by Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2006

Published by Plume, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2007

Published in Penguin Books 2016

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ILLUSTRATION CREDITS: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution/Art Resource, NY: here; Brown Brothers: here, here; Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations: here, here, here; Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations: here, here; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson and Orme Wilson, 1949, [49-4]: here; Museum of the City of New York, The Byron Collection: here, here, here, here; Library of Congress: here, here; © Corbis: here; Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations: here; Museum of the City of New York, Print Archive: here; Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Mrs. Theron R. Strong: here; Harvard College Library: here; Exclusive News Agency, London: here; Mary Evans/The Image Works: here; Justin Kaplan: here, here.

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