Tina Brown
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The author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queen's stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
"Never again" became Queen Elizabeth II's mantra shortly after Princess Diana's tragic death. More specifically, there could never be "another Diana"--a member of the family whose global popularity upstaged, outshone, and posed an existential threat to the British monarchy....
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. This "insanely readable and improbably profound" biography (Chicago Tribune) reveals the truth as only famed journalist Tina Brown could tell it.
"The best book on Diana." —The New Yorker
Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty...
"The best book on Diana." —The New Yorker
Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty...
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The irreverent diaries of the author's celebrated years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair also serves as a vibrant portrait of the 1980s in New York and Hollywood, describing her summons from London in the hopes of saving Condé Nast's troubled periodical and her experiences within the cutthroat world of glamour magazines.
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Founded in 1925, The New Yorker publishes the best writers of its time and has received more National Magazine Awards than any other magazine, for its groundbreaking reporting, authoritative analysis, and creative inspiration. The New Yorker takes readers beyond the weekly print magazine with the web, mobile, tablet, social media, and signature events. The New Yorker is at once a classic and at the leading edge.
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A bad craziness is snaking through America in the first years of the Obama administration:
THE WINGNUTS ARE ON THE ATTACK
WHAT’S A WINGNUT?
A wingnut is someone on the far-right or far-left wing of the political spectrum—professional partisans, unhinged activists and paranoid conspiracy theorists.
Campaigning as the antidote to polarized politics, Barack Obama promised to transcend the old divides of left and right, black and white,...
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For eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair, Tina Brown kept delicious daily diaries. Today they provide an incendiary portrait of the flash and dash and power brokering of the Excessive Eighties. Astute, openhearted, often riotously funny, this is a compulsively fascinating and intimate chronicle of a woman's life in a glittering era.
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The art of tattoos goes back hundreds, if not thousands, of years and today they are more popular than ever, but how many people really know the story behind tattoos? With a fascination for the Victorian tattoo craze, and the way the story behind these manmade marks have evolved over the years, Tina Brown is the perfect author to guide you through the fascinating, sometimes surprising, story that led to their current popularity. A global adventure...
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"For the millions who adored the People's Princess, this lavish book celebrates Diana Spencer's life in pictures. Page after page of inside photos from the legendary National Geographic archives document the royal's most memorable moments in the spotlight; a luminous, personal remembrance by Diana friend and biographer Tina Brown adds context and nuance to a poignant life twenty years after her tragic death. Float down memory lane through more than...
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The inside scoop on the world's most famous chronicler in the age of celebrity. Join Dominick Dunne, Vanity Fair's most notorious celebrity journalist, and a parade of Hollywood and literary notables as they attempt to make sense of his shocking and tumultuous life. Set during his coverage of the Phil Spector murder trial.