When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age

7 best books like When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods & Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age (Justin Kaplan): American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II, That Churchill Woman, A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, A Cruel Deception, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life

American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

Author	Karen Harper
ISBN	0062748343

Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. Now, Karen Harper tells the tale of Consuelo Vanderbilt, her “The Wedding of the Century” to the Duke of Marlborough, and her quest to find meaning behind “the glitter and the gold.”

On...

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

Author	Robert Matzen
ISBN	1732273537

Twenty-five years after her passing, Audrey Hepburn remains the most beloved of all Hollywood stars, known as much for her role as UNICEF ambassador as for films like Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Several biographies have chronicled her stardom, but none has covered her intense experiences...

That Churchill Woman

Author	Stephanie Barron
ISBN	1524799564

The Paris Wife meets PBS's Victoria in this enthralling novel of the life and loves of one of history's most remarkable women: Winston Churchill's scandalous American mother, Jennie Jerome.

Wealthy, privileged, and fiercely independent New Yorker Jennie Jerome took Victorian England...

A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts

Author	Therese Anne Fowler
ISBN	1250095476

A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York,

In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt's Fifth Ave. costume ball--a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long before was destitute, her family's good name useless on its own. Marrying into the newly rich but socially...

Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Author	Arthur T. Vanderbilt II
ISBN	0688103863

Vanderbilt: the very name signifies wealth. The family patriarch, "the Commodore," built up a fortune that made him the world's richest man by 1877. Yet, less than fifty years after the Commodore's death, one of his direct descendants died penniless, and no Vanderbilt was counted among the world's...

A Cruel Deception

Author	Charles Todd
ISBN	0062859862

In the aftermath of World War I, nurse Bess Crawford attempts to save a troubled former soldier from a mysterious killer.

The Armistice of November 1918 ended the fighting, but the Great War will not be over until a Peace Treaty is drawn up and signed by all parties. Representatives from the Allies...

Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life

Author	Natalie Dykstra
ISBN	0618873856

The hidden story of one of the most fascinating women of the Gilded Age

Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married at twenty-eight the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where...