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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781474608428

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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983–1992 by Tina Brown Pdf

'Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious' Evening Standard 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep It's 1983. A young Englishwoman arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned in the hope that she can save Condé Nast's troubled new flagship Vanity Fair, Tina Brown is plunged into the maelstrom of competitive New York media. She survives the politics and the intrigue by a simple stratagem: succeeding. Here are the inside stories of the 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. Written with dash and verve, the diary is also a sharply observed account of New York and London society. In its cinematic pages the drama, comedy and struggle of raising a family and running an 'it' magazine come to life.

The Vanity Fair Diaries

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781627791373

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The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown Pdf

Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & Vogue 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 the diary's cinematic pages, 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.

The Vanity Fair Diaries, 1983-1992

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147460840X

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The Vanity Fair Diaries, 1983-1992 by Tina Brown Pdf

The sizzling diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair paint a riveting portrait of the flash, dash and follies of the Eighties in New York and Hollywood. 'A fabulous odyssey ... I read it in a mad frenzy' Stephen Fry 'Fluent, funny, fierce' Sunday Telegraph 'The juiciest of the year' Cosmoplitan 'Hang on - it's a wild ride' Meryl Streep The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned from London in hopes that she can save Cond� 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 scepticism, 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 pages, the drama, comedy and 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.

Avoid Boring People

Author : James D. Watson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375727146

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Avoid Boring People by James D. Watson Pdf

From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those starting out their academic careers. In Avoid Boring People, Watson lays down a life’s wisdom for getting ahead in a competitive world. Witty and uncompromisingly honest, he shares his thoughts on how young scientists should choose the projects that will shape their careers, the supreme importance of collegiality, and dealing with competitors within the same institution. It’s an irreverent romp through Watson’s colorful career and an indispensable guide to anyone interested in nurturing the life of the mind.

The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 1474608418

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The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992 by Tina Brown Pdf

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.

The Which Way Tree

Author : Elizabeth Crook
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781835011003

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The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook Pdf

When a panther attacks a family of homesteaders in the remote hill country of Texas, it leaves a young girl traumatised and scarred, and her mother dead. Samantha is determined to find and kill the animal and avenge her mother, and her half-brother Benjamin, helpless to make her see sense, joins her quest. Dragged into the panther hunters' crusade by the force and purity of Samantha's desire for revenge are a charismatic outlaw, a haunted, compassionate preacher, and an aged but relentless tracker dog. As the members of this unlikely posse hunt the giant panther, they in turn are pursued by a hapless, sadistic soldier with a score to settle. And Benjamin can only try to protect his sister from her own obsession, and tell her story in his uniquely vivid voice. The breathtaking saga of a steadfast girl's revenge against an implacable and unknowable beast, The Which Way Tree is a timeless tale full of warmth and humour, testament to the power of adventure and enduring love.

House of Happy Endings

Author : Leslie Garis
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429923309

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House of Happy Endings by Leslie Garis Pdf

Howard Garis, creator of the famed Uncle Wiggily series, along with his wife, Lilian, were phenomenally productive writers of popular children's series—including The Bobbsey Twins and Tom Swift—from the turn of the century to the 1950s. In a large, romantic house in Amherst, Massachusetts, Leslie Garis, her two brothers, and their parents and grandparents aimed to live a life that mirrored the idyllic world the elder Garises created nonstop. But inside The Dell—where Robert Frost often sat in conversation over sherry, and stories appeared to spring from the very air—all was not right. Roger Garis's inability to match his parents' success in his own work as playwright, novelist, and magazine writer led to his conviction that he was a failure as father, husband, and son, and eventually deepened into mental illness characterized by raging mood swings, drug abuse, and bouts of debilitating and destructive depression. House of Happy Endings is Leslie Garis's mesmerizing, tender, and harrowing account of coming of age in a wildly imaginative, loving, but fatally wounded family.

Honor Bound

Author : Raffaele Sollecito,Andrew Gumbel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451696394

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Honor Bound by Raffaele Sollecito,Andrew Gumbel Pdf

Love and death -- Kafka on the Tiber -- The protected section -- Justice -- Epilogue.

The Diana Chronicles

Author : Tina Brown
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385522885

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The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown Pdf

#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 and humanitarian missions? Or was she manipulative and media-savvy and nearly brought down the monarchy? Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Tatler, England’s glossiest gossip magazine; Vanity Fair; and The New Yorker gives us the answers. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker-Bowles, the ultimate "other woman" into this combustible mix, and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.

Inside Vogue

Author : Alexandra Shulman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780241978368

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Inside Vogue by Alexandra Shulman Pdf

The secret diary of Vogue Editor-in-Chief Alexandra Shulman and the real story behind the BBC TV ABSOLUTELY FASHION documentary. 'One of the great social diaries of our time . . . should become a classic.' Sunday Times 'Eye-popping, brilliantly candid' Evening Standard What a year for Vogue! Alexandra Shulman reveals the emotional and logistical minefield of producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surprise), organizing the star-studded Vogue 100 Gala, working with designers from Victoria Beckham to Karl Lagerfeld and contributors from David Bailey to Alexa Chung. All under the continual scrutiny of a television documentary crew. But narrowly-contained domestic chaos hovers - spontaneous combustion in the kitchen, a temperamental boiler and having to send bin day reminders all the way from Milan fashion week. For anyone who wants to know what the life of a fashion magazine editor is really like, or for any woman who loves her job, this is a rich, honest and sharply observed account of a year lived at the centre of British fashion and culture.

Mojo Workin'

Author : Katrina Hazzard-Donald
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252094460

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Mojo Workin' by Katrina Hazzard-Donald Pdf

A bold reconsideration of Hoodoo belief and practice Katrina Hazzard-Donald explores African Americans' experience and practice of the herbal, healing folk belief tradition known as Hoodoo. She examines Hoodoo culture and history by tracing its emergence from African traditions to religious practices in the Americas. Working against conventional scholarship, Hazzard-Donald argues that Hoodoo emerged first in three distinct regions she calls "regional Hoodoo clusters" and that after the turn of the nineteenth century, Hoodoo took on a national rather than regional profile. The spread came about through the mechanism of the "African Religion Complex," eight distinct cultural characteristics familiar to all the African ethnic groups in the United States. The first interdisciplinary examination to incorporate a full glossary of Hoodoo culture, Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System lays out the movement of Hoodoo against a series of watershed changes in the American cultural landscape. Hazzard-Donald examines Hoodoo material culture, particularly the "High John the Conquer" root, which practitioners employ for a variety of spiritual uses. She also examines other facets of Hoodoo, including rituals of divination such as the "walking boy" and the "Ring Shout," a sacred dance of Hoodoo tradition that bears its corollaries today in the American Baptist churches. Throughout, Hazzard-Donald distinguishes between "Old tradition Black Belt Hoodoo" and commercially marketed forms that have been controlled, modified, and often fabricated by outsiders; this study focuses on the hidden system operating almost exclusively among African Americans in the Black spiritual underground.

Gatherings

Author : Marina Rust
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028870106

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Gatherings by Marina Rust Pdf

"What went wrong? This is young Meredith's question as she steps into her family's fairy tale of ease and beauty. Why had her mother fled? Why had her uncle died?" "The Frasers move as in eras past, drifting with the seasons. Holidays are spent on a sheltered island off the coast of Maine, at a South Carolina shooting plantation, in Park Avenue drawing rooms. Through Meredith's eyes, we watch as her cousins Pearce and Felicity come of age in these sheltered haunts." "As Meredith enters into a fragile alliance with Felicity and a dangerous liaison with Pearce, ghosts from the past reassert themselves. Patterns of destruction repeat, cries for help go unanswered, muffled by manners and gentle beach breezes. When tragedy strikes, Meredith and her cousins must reconcile their vanishing world with their expanding dreams." "A haunting portrait of a family debilitated by wealth, Gatherings is the stunning debut of an eloquent new voice in American fiction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes

Author : Molly Case
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781324003472

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How to Treat People: A Nurse's Notes by Molly Case Pdf

A fascinating and poignant memoir of the body and its care, told through the experiences of a young nurse. As a teenager, Molly Case underwent an operation that saved her life. Nearly a decade later, she finds herself in the operating room again—this time as a trainee nurse. She learns to care for her patients, sharing not only their pain, but also life-affirming moments of hope. In doing so, she offers a compelling account of the processes that keep them alive, from respiratory examinations to surgical prep, and of the extraordinary moments of human connection that sustain both nurse and patient. In rich, lyrical prose, Case illustrates the intricacies of the human condition through the hand of a stranger offered in solace, a gentle word in response to fear and anger, or the witnessing of a person’s last breaths. It is these moments of empathy, in the extremis of human experience, that define us as people. But when Molly’s father is admitted to the cardiac unit where she works, the professional and the personal suddenly collide. Weaving together medical history, art, memoir, and science, How to Treat People beautifully explores the oscillating rhythms of life and death in a tender reminder that we can all find meaning in being, even for a moment, part of the lives of others.

The Reagan Diaries

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061751943

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The Reagan Diaries by Ronald Reagan Pdf

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Reading these diaries, Americans will find it easier to understand how Reagan did what he did for so long . . . They paint a portrait of a president who was engaged by his job and had a healthy perspective on power.” —Jon Meacham, Newsweek During his two terms as the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan kept a daily diary in which he recorded his innermost thoughts and observations on the extraordinary, the historic, and the routine occurrences of his presidency. To read these diaries—now compiled into one volume by noted historian Douglas Brinkley and filled with Reagan’s trademark wit, sharp intelligence, and humor—is to gain a unique understanding of one of our nation’s most fascinating leaders.

Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary

Author : Alex And Marcus Lewis,Joanna Hodgkin
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444757293

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Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary by Alex And Marcus Lewis,Joanna Hodgkin Pdf

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother. Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin. Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had not told you the whole truth about your childhood, your family, and the forces that had shaped you. Why the secrets? Why the silences? You have no choice but to begin again. This has been Alex's reality: a world where memories are just the stories people tell you, where fact and fiction are impossible to distinguish. With dogged courage he has spent years hunting for the truth about his hidden past and his remarkable family. His quest to understand his true identity has revealed shocking betrayals and a secret tragedy, extraordinary triumph over crippling adversity and, above all, redemption founded on brotherly love. Marcus his twin brother has sometimes been a reluctant companion on this journey, but for him too it has led to staggering revelations and ultimately the shedding of impossible burdens. Their story spans continents and eras, from 1950s debutantes and high society in the Home Counties to a remote island in the Pacific and 90s raves. Disturbing, funny, heart-breaking and affirming, Alex and Marcus's determination to rebuild their lives makes us look afresh at how we choose to tell our stories.