The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 - 1992

Brown, Tina

ISBN 10: 1427292663 ISBN 13: 9781427292667

Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2017

Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties in New York and Hollywood.

The Vanity Fair Diaries 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 Vanity Fair, 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.

Here are the inside stories of Vanity Fair 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 this cinematic audiobook, the drama, the comedy, and the struggle of running an "it" magazine come to life. Brown's Vanity Fair Diaries 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.

Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown's The Vanity Fair Diaries is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.

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About the Author

Tina Brown is an award-winning writer and editor and the founder of the Women in the World summit. Between 1979 and 2001, she was editor in chief of Tatler, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker and she authored the 2007 bestselling biography of the Princess of Wales, The Diana Chronicles. In 2008 Brown launched The Daily Beast, and in 2010 launched Tina Brown Live Media to expand Women in the World internationally. She is married to editor, publisher, and historian Sir Harold Evans and lives in New York City.

Review

Best Audiobooks of 2017 -BookPage

"Here, in all their glory, are the excessive and extravagant go-go 1980s." -AudioFile

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1427292663
• ISBN 13: 9781427292667
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 17