{"product_id":"9781427292667","title":"The Vanity Fair Diaries : 1983 - 1992","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Vanity Fair Diaries\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Tina Brown\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program is read by the author.\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 this cinematic audiobook, 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\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Audiobooks of 2017 -\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Here, in all their glory, are the excessive and extravagant go-go 1980s.\" -\u003ci\u003eAudioFile\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781427292667\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"CD-Audio","offer_id":40673508884686,"sku":"9781427292667","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_0bf749d7-1cbc-4f32-9046-e8a1d6031ffd.jpg?v=1639886346","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781427292667","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}