{"product_id":"a-capital-idea-an-illustrated-history-of-the-capital-hotel-9781682262832","title":"A Capital Idea: An Illustrated History of the Capital Hotel","description":"\u003cp\u003e The Capital Hotel of Little Rock, Arkansas, is uniquely beautiful, with its cast-iron façade and marble lobby, its high-ceilinged rooms, and its rich history. Since its opening in 1876, it has been the stage for the struggles, schemes, and dreams of generations of politicians, debutantes, businesspeople, and newlyweds. A wide variety of owners and visionaries have shaped the hotel's fortunes, including the Yankee entrepreneur who raised its walls, the Italian immigrant family who kept it going in its worst days, the architect who envisioned new life in its venerable bones, and the financiers and craftsmen who brought the Capital to its current glory as a luxury hotel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The story of the Capital Hotel is also the story of Little Rock and of many American cities: built in the commercial boom of the 1870s, in full flower at the turn of the century--then battered by the Depression, optimistic in the postwar era, decrepit by the late 1960s, rejuvenated in the 1980s and 2000s, and now thriving today. \u003cp\u003e This lavishly illustrated volume--recently updated to celebrate the hotel's 150th anniversary--traces the building's lively history, from its origins as a commercial hub to its spectacular renovation into a jewel of downtown Little Rock. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteven B. Weintz is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. He started his career in 1980 as a copywriter at an ad agency in Manhattan before working at \u003ci\u003eReader's Digest\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1987, he helped launch the publishing division of \u003ci\u003eLeisure Arts\u003c\/i\u003e that later sold to Southern Progress\/Time Warner.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arkansas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890548408594,"sku":"9781682262832","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3781380-96d4-4467-a4e2-1025d3bdf09d.jpg?v=1768307470","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-capital-idea-an-illustrated-history-of-the-capital-hotel-9781682262832","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}