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1. 1. The Plaza

   The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

   

   A lively, richly detailed history of New York’s most famous luxury hotel that traces its rise from gilded-age opulence to a modern-day icon, interweaving architectural and design history with profiles of owners, managers, celebrity guests and the staff who kept it running; the narrative examines financial ups and downs, contentious real-estate deals and preservation battles while showing how the hotel both reflected and helped shape the city’s social life and cultural imagination.

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