{"product_id":"empire-of-the-elite-inside-condzs-nast-the-media-dynasty-that-reshaped-america-9781668003923","title":"Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through the 2000s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life in America. The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchitectural Digest\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other titles manufactured a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped consumer habits, cultural trends, intellectual attitudes, and political beliefs the world over. Condé's billionaire owner Si Newhouse and his stable of star editors, photographers, and writers were the gatekeepers who decided what and who mattered, and they offered those opinions to tens of millions of readers every month. They were the ultimate influencers--before social media changed everything. The magazines crowned celebrities by the dozens, patronized creative talent much as the Medicis had underwritten Renaissance artists, and supercharged opulent events like the \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e Oscar Party and the Met Gala, which came to rival any fete that Louis XIV ever hosted at Versailles. The book is full of fresh behind-the-scenes reporting about a plethora of boldface names and sets out to explain how Condé Nast established itself as a de facto American aristocracy, anointing an elite and dictating the culture they presided over. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe colorful story of Condé Nast at its zenith and the profound way it influenced how Americans aspired to look, eat, decorate, date, marry, and even think, has never been examined deeply. \u003ci\u003eEmpire of the Elite\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book-length history of an empire whose publications refashioned American notions of prestige, whose editors became celebrities themselves, and whose diminution offers a cautionary tale of class, hubris, and technological change, even as its aesthetic and ethos remain influential to this day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668003923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Michael M. Grynbaum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52604464267445,"sku":"9781668003923","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/empire-of-the-elite-inside-condzs-nast-the-media-dynasty-that-reshaped-america-9781668003923","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}