Meet Julie Satow, Author of "The Plaza"

The Ferguson Library kicks off its Adult Summer Reading program, A Universe of Stories, on Thursday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Harry Bennett Branch with a special author program featuring Julie Satow, author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel. The Harry Bennett Branch of The Ferguson Library is located at 115 Vine Road, Stamford. Light refreshments will be served and a book sale and signing will follow the presentation. Register online at fergusonlibrary.org/event/.

The Plaza is journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined our understanding of money and glamour, from the Gilded Age to the Go-Go Eighties to today’s Billionaire Row.

The Plaza is the account of one vaunted New York City address that has become synonymous with wealth and scandal, opportunity and tragedy. With glamour on the surface and strife behind the scenes, it is the story of how one hotel became a mirror reflecting New York's place at the center of the country's cultural narrative for over a century.

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist who has covered real estate in New York City for more than a decade. A regular contributor to The New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, the New York Post, The Daily Beast and elsewhere.

"Readers will happily soak up period details and take notes on how the stalwart staff dealt with class snobbery, prohibition and gangsters, wartime privations, the turbulent 1960s, wealthy dowagers, blushing debutantes, persistent groupies, omnipresent prostitutes, and brawling Indian billionaires. This is social history at its best: thoughtful, engaging, and lots of fun."—Booklist (Starred Review)

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