Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the media dynasty that reshaped the world

'Michael Grynbaum chronicles the rise and fall of a media juggernaut, owner of glossy magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and GQ, weaving tight reporting and outrageous gossip with a thoughtful cultural history.' FINANCIAL TIMES'Glamour!Taste! Prestige! Monsters! I loved this gorgeous romp through a lost world' MARINA HYDEFor decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life.The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest, 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 socia