TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeland,David
TI  - American Hotel: The Waldorf-Astoria and the Making of a Century 
SN  - 9780813594422
U1  - 647.9409747/1 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Waldorf, Astoria, Ladies of Soul, Automats, Taxi Dances, Vaudeville, Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, New York, luxury, elegance, hotel, hotels, Deco architecture, twentieth-century, world capital, urban landscape, Boom Centre, Waldorf-Astoria, NY, hotel rooms, Park Ave, luxury hotel, influential position hotels, DEco, New York's rise, American, Manhattan's rise, city
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 A Haven for the Well-to-Do --; Chapter 2 Woman Spelled with a Big “W” --; Chapter 3 “Boom Centre” --; Chapter 4 Temporary Storms and Stress --; Chapter 5 No More Junior Proms! --; Chapter 6 Weekend at the Waldorf --; Chapter 7 Little America --; Chapter 8 The Waldorf Belongs to the People --; Chapter 9 Becoming Visible --; Epilogue --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Completed in 1931, New York’s Waldorf-Astoria towers over Park Avenue as an international landmark and a masterpiece of Art Deco architecture. A symbol of elegance and luxury, the hotel has hosted countless movie stars, business tycoons, and world leaders over the past ninety years. American Hotel takes us behind the glittering image to reveal the full extent of the Waldorf’s contribution toward shaping twentieth-century life and culture. Historian David Freeland examines the Waldorf from the opening of its first location in 1893 through its rise to a place of influence on the local, national, and international stage. Along the way, he explores how the hotel’s mission to provide hospitality to a diverse range of guests was put to the test by events such as Prohibition, the anticommunist Red Scare, and civil rights struggles. Alongside famous guests like Frank Sinatra, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, and Eleanor Roosevelt, readers will meet the lesser-known men and women who made the Waldorf a leader in the hotel industry and a key setting for international events. American Hotel chronicles how institutions such as the Waldorf-Astoria played an essential role in New York’s growth as a world capital
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813594422
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813594422
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780813594422/original
ER  -