{"product_id":"the-vanity-fair-diaries-power-wealth-celebrity-and-dreams-my-years-at-the-magazine-that-defined-a-decade-9781250191250","title":"The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Guardian, Paste Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;\u003ci\u003e Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Vanity Fair Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in New York City with a dream. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, Tina Brown is immediately plunged into the maelstrom of the competitive New York media world and the backstabbing rivalries at the court of the planet's slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. She survives the politics, the intrigue, and the attempts to derail her by a simple stratagem: succeeding. In the face of rampant skepticism, she triumphantly reinvents a failing magazine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are the inside stories of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e scoops and covers that sold millions--the Reagan kiss, the meltdown of Princess Diana's marriage to Prince Charles, the sensational Annie Leibovitz cover of a gloriously pregnant, naked Demi Moore. In the diary's cinematic pages, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an \"it\" magazine come to life. Brown's \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e is also a woman's journey, of making a home in a new country and of the deep bonds with her husband, their prematurely born son, and their daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAstute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown's \u003ci\u003eThe Vanity Fair Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tina Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250191250","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45089336459401,"sku":"9781250191250","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8c290426-3a1e-468c-b6c8-1cfe7098eba9.jpg?v=1766476375","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-vanity-fair-diaries-power-wealth-celebrity-and-dreams-my-years-at-the-magazine-that-defined-a-decade-9781250191250","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}