740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (854 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767917448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 576 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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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. Rubber. Outside the walls of 740 Park, these were the people shaping America culturally and economically. This is, truly, how the other half—or at least the other one hundredth of one percent—lives.. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, until now. 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. Within those walls, they were indulging in all of the Seven Deadly Sins. Nowadays, it is full to bursting with new money, people whose fortunes, though freshly-made, are large enough to buy their way in. Co
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