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Mrs. Astor's New York Black & African American History to find the safety ofMrs. Astor, undisputed queen of New York society in the decades before the First World War, used her prestige to create a social aristocracy of unparalleled extravagance and exclusivity. Her story, which reads like a novel by Edith Wharton, sheds important new light on the origins, lifestyle, and social competitiveness of this aristocracy, and it is told here with vigor and elegance by Eric Homberger. Homberger argues that the arrival in New York of a