{"product_id":"9781432845070","title":"The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of the best books of 2017 by \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople, Amazon.com,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;\u003ci\u003e Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thorndike Press Large Print","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058185158896,"sku":"9781432845070","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781432845070_p0.jpg?v=1763751687","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781432845070","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}