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دانلود کتاب 740 Park : the Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
دانلود کتاب پارک 740: داستان ثروتمندترین ساختمان آپارتمانی جهان
مشخصات کتاب
740 Park : the Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
ویرایش:
نویسندگان: Gross. Michael
سری:
ISBN (شابک) : 9780307418760, 0307418766
ناشر: Crown Publishing Group
سال نشر: 2007
تعداد صفحات: 0
زبان: English
فرمت فایل : EPUB (درصورت درخواست کاربر به PDF، EPUB یا AZW3 تبدیل می شود)
حجم فایل: 2 مگابایت
قیمت کتاب (تومان) : 53,000
کلمات کلیدی مربوط به کتاب پارک 740: داستان ثروتمندترین ساختمان آپارتمانی جهان: علوم اجتماعی.، شهری.، تاریخ.، جامعه شناسی.، علوم اجتماعی.، زندگی نامه و اتوبیوگرافی.، ثروتمند و مشهور.، معماری.
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توضیحاتی درمورد کتاب به خارجی
For seventy-five years, it?s been Manhattan?s richest apartment
building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the
world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11
working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers
saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16.
To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most
of us could only imagine, until now. The last great building to go up along
New York?s Gold Coast, construction on 740 Park finished in
1930. Since then, 740 has been home to an ever-evolving cadre
of our wealthiest and most powerful families, some of America?s
(and the world?s) oldest money?the kind attached to names like
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton,
and Harkness?and some whose names evoke the excesses of today?s
monied elite: Kravis, Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and
Schwarzman. All along, the building has housed titans of
industry, political power brokers, international royalty,
fabulous scam-artists, and even the lowest scoundrels. The book
begins with the tumultuous story of the building?s
construction. Conceived in the bubbling financial, artistic,
and social cauldron of 1920?s Manhattan, 740 Park rose to its
dizzying heights as the stock market plunged in 1929?the
building was in dire financial straits before the first
apartments were sold. The builders include the architectural
genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman James T. Lee
(Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?s grandfather), and a raft of
financiers, many of whom were little more than white-collar
crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished, 740 became a
magnet for the richest, oldest families in the country: the
Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the Plymouth Colony;
the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins, Scovilles, Thornes,
and Schermerhorns; and top executives of the Chase Bank,
American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740
Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and
economically. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of
the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social climate evolved throughout
the last century, so did 740 Park: after World War II, the
building?s rulers eased their more restrictive policies and
began allowing Jews (though not to this day African Americans)
to reside within their hallowed walls. Nowadays, it is full to
bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though
freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. At its core
this book is a social history of the American rich, and how the
locus of power and influence has shifted haltingly from old
bloodlines to new money. But it?s also much more than that:
filled with meaty, startling, often tragic stories of the
people who lived behind 740?s walls, the book gives us an
unprecedented access to worlds of wealth, privilege, and
extraordinary folly that are usually hidden behind a scrim of
money and influence. This is, truly, how the other half?or at
least the other one hundredth of one percent?lives.
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Abstract: For seventy-five years, it?s been Manhattan?s richest
apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses
in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43
closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and
his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service
staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury,
the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. The last
great building to go up along New York?s Gold Coast,
construction on 740 Park finished in 1930. Since then, 740 has
been home to an ever-evolving cadre of our wealthiest and most
powerful families, some of America?s (and the world?s) oldest
money?the kind attached to names like Vanderbilt, Rockefeller,
Bouvier, Chrysler, Niarchos, Houghton, and Harkness?and some
whose names evoke the excesses of today?s monied elite: Kravis,
Koch, Bronfman, Perelman, Steinberg, and Schwarzman. All along,
the building has housed titans of industry, political power
brokers, international royalty, fabulous scam-artists, and even
the lowest scoundrels. The book begins with the tumultuous
story of the building?s construction. Conceived in the bubbling
financial, artistic, and social cauldron of 1920?s Manhattan,
740 Park rose to its dizzying heights as the stock market
plunged in 1929?the building was in dire financial straits
before the first apartments were sold. The builders include the
architectural genius Rosario Candela, the scheming businessman
James T. Lee (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?s grandfather), and a
raft of financiers, many of whom were little more than
white-collar crooks and grand-scale hustlers. Once finished,
740 became a magnet for the richest, oldest families in the
country: the Brewsters, descendents of the leader of the
Plymouth Colony; the socially-registered Bordens, Hoppins,
Scovilles, Thornes, and Schermerhorns; and top executives of
the Chase Bank, American Express, and U.S. Rubber. Outside the
walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America
culturally and economically. Within those walls, they were
indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. As the social
climate evolved throughout the last century, so did 740 Park:
after World War II, the building?s rulers eased their more
restrictive policies and began allowing Jews (though not to
this day African Americans) to reside within their hallowed
walls. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people
whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy
their way in. At its core this book is a social history of the
American rich, and how the locus of power and influence has
shifted haltingly from old bloodlines to new money. But it?s
also much more than that: filled with meaty, startling, often
tragic stories of the people who lived behind 740?s walls, the
book gives us an unprecedented access to worlds of wealth,
privilege, and extraordinary folly that are usually hidden
behind a scrim of money and influence. This is, truly, how the
other half?or at least the other one hundredth of one
percent?lives
