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.