The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade [Paperback]

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A zingy account of the glittery, shallow 1980s . . . Brown is a waspish, reliably slick writerher witty skewerings are first-class. The Times(London)

Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries throughout her eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief ofVanity 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 Diariesis 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 Cond? Nast's troubled new flagshipVanity 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 ofVanity Fairscoops and covers that sold millionsthe 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'sVanity Fair Diariesis 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'sThe Vanity Fair Diariesis a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.