Tina Brown – författare

This program is read by the author.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 this cinematic audiobook, 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.

''Hang on - it''s a wild ride'' Meryl Streep''Brilliant, concretely realised social history as much as a fabulous odyssey, and I read it in a mad frenzy'' Stephen Fry''Indiscreet, brilliantly observed, frequently hilarious'' Evening Standard''As delightful as eating a whole box of chocolates, without a trace of weight gain'' Telegraph''Heaven'' India Knight, Sunday Times

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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.

Named one of the best books of 2017 by Time, People, The Guardian, Paste Magazine, The Economist, Entertainment Weekly, & VogueTina 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.

Kuninkaallisen perheen vaiherikkaat vuodet

Windsorien vaietut totuudet -teoksessa palkittu journalisti Tina Brown syventyy Britannian monarkiaan ja kuninkaallisen perheen elämän käänteisiin kuningatar Elisabetin kuolemaan saakka.

Prinsessa Dianan kuoleman jälkeen Windsorin kuninkaallinen perhe oli uudenlaisen tilanteen edessä. Dianan suosio oli jättänyt muun kuninkaallisen perheen varjoonsa ja ollut suoranainen uhka koko monarkian olemassaololle. Perheen uutta kurssia alkoi päättäväisesti johtaa kuningatar Elisabet, mutta ristiriidoilta ei vältytty myöhempinäkään vuosina.

Tina Brown on perehtynyt brittien monarkiaan kolmen vuosikymmenen ajan ja päässyt osaksi hovin sisäpiiriä. Kirjassaan Windsorien vaietut totuudet Brown keskittyy kuninkaallisen perheen rakkaussuhteisiin, kohuihin, valtapeleihin ja petoksiin. Teos valaisee tarinoita uutisotsikoiden takana sekä median ja Windsorien perheen jäsenten välisiä suhteita.

Kuninkaallisen perheen kohtaamat viimeaikaiset kriisit ovat luoneet uudenlaisia haasteita monarkian vaikutusvallan ja merkityksen ylläpitämisessä. Miltä Windsorien johtama monarkia tulee näyttämään Charles III:n valtakaudella?