When the Astors Owned New YorkBy: Justin Kaplan In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin KaplanPulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twainvividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded Age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor lived incomparably privileged lives. For three decades around the turn of the nineteenth century, they vied for primacy in New York society, producing the