{"product_id":"9781466867000","title":"At The Plaza: An Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Hotel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt The Plaza\u003c\/i\u003e is a pictorial record and an anecdotal history of the world's most famous hotel: New York's Plaza. As a story, it traverses the breadth and scope of Gotham's high society during the American Century. As a photo collection, it's like no other, capturing the hotel's remarkable presence on the ever-changing New York scene. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor almost one hundred years, The Plaza has mirrored the social history of Manhattan: its tastes in design, entertainment, restaurants and accommodations, as well as its adjustment to Prohibition, the Great Depression, two World Wars, the Cold War, women's rights, smokers' rights, animals' rights and British rock-and-roll. The first guests to sign the register-Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt-set the standard for the long procession of luminaries that followed: Mark Twain, Diamond Jim Brady, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the Beatles, among many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAt The Plaza\u003c\/i\u003e, the hotel's official historian, Curtis Gathje, has compiled a tremendous collection of photographs and vignettes chronicling the colorful history of a building, an institution, and a city.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124767736048,"sku":"9781466867000","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466867000_p0.jpg?v=1769891649","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466867000","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}