The Vanity Fair Diaries: Power, Wealth, Celebrity, and Dreams: My Years at the Magazine That Defined a Decade

The sizzling diaries of Tina Brown´s eight spectacular years as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair paint a riveting portrait of the flash and follies of the eighties in New York and Hollywood. The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman—barely out of her twenties, Oxford-educated, Fleet Street honed—who arrives in Manhattan on a mission. Summoned from London to attempt a do-or-die rescue of Condé Nast´s flailing new flagship, Vanity Fair, she is instantly plunged into the competitive maelstrom of the New York media world and the backstabbing court rivalries of the planet´s slickest, most glamour-focused magazine company. 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. Astute, open-hearted, often riotously funny, Tina Brown´s The Vanity Fair Diaries is a fascinating real-time chronicle of a remarkable woman´s adventures in a glittering—and scorching—era.