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The Waldorf-Astoria: America's Gilded Dream

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I decided to buy the book after staying at the hotel last Summer, and I have to admit I was underwhelmed. The book gives some good background information, but the author's writing style drove me nuts. Way too choppy and not much flow. Also, it really is a puff piece without much meat.

I took my chances buying this book though there were no reviews on it, and I lost. I wasn't able to finish the book. It bored me. It didn't hold my interest. I got "Life At The Top" also and I am sure hoping it will be better. I can't exactly pinpoint what I didn't like about the book except that it seems he wrote his chapters like magazine articles and then put them together as a book without noticing that certain names and things are already mentioned in past chapters. And there just wasn't anything to hold it all together, I guess it didn't go deep enough into the areas that would have interested me. But really, how can you write much of anything about a building, particularly one with so many comings and goings.

This book is a little dated as it was printed in the early 1990s. It tells alot about those associated with the hotel. It would be great to have an updated version with coloured photos.