Hotel Dreams: Luxury, Technology, and Urban Ambition in America, 1829-1929 Ebook

Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel’s material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public’s imagination as it came to represent the complex—and often contentious—relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. .eText ISBN: 9781421401843