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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
- Narrated by: Tina Brown
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her 20s 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 the diary's cinematic story, 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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- Ms. A. Robledo
- 03-01-2018
Just wonderful
A joy to read and great female inspiration to draw from for many years to come. Thank you for sharing Tina.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-2022
An incredible career and life. A must-listen!
I read and devoured this incredible memoir before as a normal book but it goes to the next level with Tina voicing it herself. There are so many layers to this rich and entertaining story. Tina's inspiring career as a female leader is one in itself but then you have the overlay of her being a witness to New York in the dynamic and crazy 80s and the highs and lows of the media industry. it's both fascinating and wonderful. I love it!
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-2018
Loved this book
Amazing glimpse into the recreation of one of my favourite magazines. Tina Brown is awesome
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- Rosina
- 11-06-2022
Captivating
I couldn't stop listening. Tina Brown shows what is achieved when intelligence, tenacity, determination, dedication, application and innovation converge. This New York story of the recreation and absolute dominance of Vanity Fair magazine proves what Alec Baldwin said, "New York was so much better in the '80s." An absolute delight!
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- Ingrid Braun
- 29-06-2022
Very incisive and entertaining
I love listening to Tina Brown narrate her own books. Tina, if you’re reading this, you’re a star!
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- Mia Ristivojevic
- 14-03-2023
I didn’t expect that I would enjoy this as much as I did.
I’ll now be seeking out other Tina Brown books. Highly recommend if you consume and follow some of the great, or maybe not so great, titles of the magazine publishing world.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-07-2018
A real derge!
A name dropping self indulgent derge. Could not possibly get through it. I really tried!
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