Book: ‘The Breakers’ by Charles Lockwood – August 22nd, 2016
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Aug.22, 2016, under Books
The Breakers: A Century of Grand Traditions by Charles Lockwood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Author Lockwood does a fine job of laying out the history of Henry Flagler’s creation, ‘The Breakers’, with a ton of photos to help tell the story. Though this is a Public Relations piece for the hotel and certain parts of the story are left out, the story is otherwise complete and rich in details involving architecture, interior design and even the scheduling of tasks in a 24 hour day at the hotel.
The writing is very good. Lockwood obviously has a firm grip as to architectural terminology. He weaves it well into the history and timeline of the hotel. His writing of the captions is also above average for a book of this sort. One trouble is the layout and captions in a couple places.
As mentioned, there is an interesting few pages involving 24 hours of the hotel in a timeline. Included are all sorts of tidbits as to how a hotel is run and specifically what happens at The Breakers. A second time line is by years involving significant dates of The Breakers. Both of these will greatly aid the reader in understanding when and where so much happened. Both of these are outstanding additions.
Bottom line: I recommend this book. 10 out of 10 points.
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