(Applause Books). Since it first opened its doors in October 1907, the Plaza has been the hub of glamour and culture in New York. It is where F. Scott Fitzgerald lived during the Jazz Age, where Frank Lloyd Wright stayed while building the Guggenheim Museum, where the Beatles bivouacked when they invaded America, and where Macaulay Culkin stayed after spending all that time home alone. It's where Liza Minnelli grew up and Eloise acted up. Ward Morehouse III, who himself did some growing up at the hotel, has collected all the Plaza's gems, looked into all the nooks and crannies. In his newly...

Ward Morehouse III is a columnist, a playwright, a TV host, sometime critic and an author. He has lived with a tribe of Indians in the Amazon and he has sat on the aisle on many Broadway opening nights. Ward has written 11 books including London's Grand Hotels and his most recent book Millennium Biltmore: A Grand Hotel Born of Hollywood Dreams. Ward was a staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor for 10 years, a drama critic and columnist for Reuters in the early 1990s, the Broadway columnist for The New York Post for ¬five years and is currently a drama critic for...

This is the HARDBACK version. Ward Morehouse III is a columnist, a playwright, a TV host, sometime critic and an author. He has lived with a tribe of Indians in the Amazon and he has sat on the aisle on many Broadway opening nights. Ward has written 11 books including London's Grand Hotels and his most recent book Millennium Biltmore: A Grand Hotel Born of Hollywood Dreams. Ward was a staff correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor for 10 years, a drama critic and columnist for Reuters in the early 1990s, the Broadway columnist for The New York Post for ¬five years and is currently a...