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How America Invented the HotelA history of hospitality.

By A.K. Sandoval-StrauszPosted Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2007, at 7:25 AM ET

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A.K. Sandoval-Strausz is the author of Hotel: An American History, just published by Yale University Press. He is an assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
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