Best Selling Books by Graydon Carter

From the pages of Vanity Fair to the red carpets of Hollywood, editor Graydon Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture When Graydon Carter was offered the editorship of Vanity Fair in 1992, he knew he faced an uphill battle—how to make the esteemed and long-established magazine his own. Not only was he confronted with a staff that he perceived to be loyal to the previous regime, but he arrived only a few years after launching Spy magazine, which gloried in skewering the celebrated and powerful—the very people Vanity Fair venerated. With curiosity, fearlessness, and a love of recent history and glamour that would come to define his storied career in magazines, Carter succeeded in endearing himself to his editors, contributors, and readers, as well as many of the faces that would come to appear in Vanity Fair’s pages. He went on to run the magazine with overwhelming success for the next two and a half decades. Filled with colorful memories and intimate details, When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter’s lively recounting of how he made his mark as one of the most talented editors in the business. Moving to New York from Canada, he worked at Time, Life, The New York Observer, and Spy, before catching the eye of Condé Nast chairman Si Newhouse, who pulled him in to run Vanity Fair. In Newhouse he found an unwavering champion, a loyal proprietor who gave Carter the editorial and financial freedom to thrive. Annie Leibovitz’s photographs would come to define the look of the magazine, as would the “New Establishment” and annual Hollywood issues. Carter further planted a flag in Los Angeles with the legendary Vanity Fair Oscar party. With his inimitable voice and signature quip, he brings readers to lunches and dinners with the great and good of America, Britain, and Europe. He assembled one of the most formidable stables of writers and photographers under one roof, and here he re-creates in real time the steps he took to ensure Vanity Fair cemented its place as the epicenter of art, culture, business, and politics, even as digital media took hold. Charming, candid, and brimming with stories, When the Going Was Good perfectly captures the last golden age of print magazines from the inside out.

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Vanity Fair 100 Years showcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and culture—both highbrow and low—in this collection of images that graced the pages of magazine, and some published for the very first time. "A stunning artifact." (New York Times Book Review) From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age, Vanity Fair has presented the modern era as it has unfolded, using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative, and bold, groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day. Edited by Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter, this sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the magazine, stopping to describe the incomparable editor Frank Crowninshield and the birth of the Jazz Age Vanity Fair, the magazine’s controversial rebirth in 1983, and the history of the glamorous Vanity Fair Oscar Party. A gorgeous coffee table book to enjoy, gift, and display. “The book is a stunning artifact that begets staring, less for the words and publishing industry than as an exercise in visual storytelling reflected through the prism of society and celebrity. The best photographers, the best designers, the best illustrators all came together over Vanity Fair’s contents, and the book unfolds in page after page of stunningly rendered images, some iconic and some that never even ran.” —New York Times Book Review

What We''ve Lost addresses the fragile state of U.S. democracy with a critical review of the Bush administration by one of our leading magazine editors, Graydon Carter. Carter has expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the current state of the nation in his monthly editor''s letters in Vanity Fair--which have aroused widespread comment--and now provides a sweeping, painstakingly detailed account of the ruinous effects of this president. The invasion of Iraq, which has proven so costly for the U.S. in lives, dollars, and international standing, is only the tip of the iceberg. It is the war at home, a quiet, covert, and in many ways more lasting and damaging war, that Carter is most wary of. The Bush White House has chipped away at decades'' worth of advances in personal rights, women''s rights, the economy, and the environment. It is difficult to point to a single element of American society that comes under federal jurisdiction that is not worse off now than it was an administration ago, from civil liberties to the economy, foreign affairs to the environment. Carter discusses these topics and many more with great cogency and specificity, detailing what Bush''s radical agenda means for America''s future--and its future standing in the world. What We''ve Lost is not the position paper of a policy wonk or a pundit, but the impassioned argument of a concerned citizen in response to the most precarious political crisis of our time.

The coveted Annie Leibovitz SUMO is now available in an unlimited XXL edition. Drawing on more than 40 years of work, including photojournalism made for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and conceptual portraits for Vanity Fair and Vogue, Leibovitz selected iconic images and also photographs that have rarely, if ever, been seen before.

''Vanity Fair Portraits'' traces the cultural history of the 20th century and its leading personalities in the pages of a magazine that helped usher in the modern age and which has itself become a benchmark of modern achievement.

Bringing together 300 iconic portraits from "Vanity Fair''s" 95-year history in a remarkable book that captures the image of modern fame, authors Carter and Friend showcase the magic that happens when individual talent and beauty--and sometimes genius--is caught in the spotlight of popular curiosity and passion. Abrams

Publicamos por primera vez en España los Cuestionarios Proust de la famosa, y centenaria, revista Vanity Fair, que lo ha empleado para entrevistar a las celebridades del siglo xx que componen este libro. Uno de los valores de esta edición es que cuenta con las famosas caricaturas de Robert Risko, siendo una mirada íntima a la vida de algunas de las figuras culturales más importantes del siglo: desde Bette Midler y Lauren Bacall a Salman Rushdie y Norman Mailer, de Martin Scorsese y Shirley MacLaine a Aretha Franklin y Eric Clapton. Un libro sincero, divertido y fascinante.

An inspiring, heartwarming memoir from the unlikely chef of The Waverly Inn The Hunger is an insider''s take on the crazy life that is the restaurant business, as well as an underdog''s tale of survival. Dissatisfied with his corporate career, John DeLucie followed his passion for food to a single cooking class at the New School (where he was named Most Likely to Succeed). He launched his first food gig at SoHo''s famed Dean & DeLuca, then cooked at several New York–area restaurants. For fifteen years, DeLucie worked his way through major challenges, while accepting both successes and failures, until finally opening his restaurant The Waverly Inn—the Greenwich Village sensation. He now shares secrets about the behind-the-scenes details from the tiny kitchen, the front of the house, and outside the restaurant, where the paparazzi gather. Also included are the stories behind some of DeLucie''s signature recipes. The Hunger is a story about food and desire and appetite—an intimate window onto a chaotic world.

SONS & FATHERS brings together a remarkable array of politicians and world leaders, writers and musicians, cultural icons and actors in this collection dedicated to fathers. A moving, fascinating and often funny collection of portraits, this anthology includes contributions from Bono, Paul Auster, Bob Geldof, George Clooney, Bill Clinton, Hanif Kureishi, Graydon Carter and Sting, to name a few. SONS & FATHERS tells the stories behind some of the great men of our age through their relationships with their fathers. From writing about memories and special moments, to open letters addressed to their fathers, these essays give readers an insight into otherwise private relationships. Including images and illustrations from the contributors, this exceptional anthology makes a wonderful gift and is highly collectable.

This lavish collection of more than 500 black and white photographs - many never seen before - opens the door into the exclusive Oscar parties given over the past 75 years. From the first Academy Awards black-tie dinner-dance in 1929, through the 40s gatherings in Los Angeles'' fashionable hotspots to the glittering Vanity Fairy gala in 2004 - this is an astounding photographic history of the ways in which Hollywood has celebrated its most glamorous night. Includes intimate and unposed photos of Cary Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, Nicole Kidman and Alfred Hitchcock.

Lorsque George W. Bush devient président des Etats-Unis en 2001, le budget affiche un excédent de 127 milliards de dollars. En 2003 le déficit annoncé est de 374 milliards de dollars - triste record dans l''histoire du pays... La dette nationale s''aggrave en moyenne de 1,58 milliard de dollars par jour ! Ces chiffres édifiants ne constituent que la partie la plus visible de la faillite de l''administration Bush, car c''est dans tous les domaines qu''il faut établir le bilan d''une régression : tel est l''objectif de Graydon Carter dans ce livre coup-de-poing. Pourquoi la guerre en Irak se révélera-t-elle sans doute le plus grand sandale du siècle ? Comment les Américains, champions des droits civiques, ont-ils pu accepter l''abolition de leurs libertés au nom de la sécurité de leur pays ? Comment met-on une économie à genoux en si peu de temps ? Comment l''administration Bush peut-elle ouvertement se moquer des conséquences désastreuses de sa politique sur l''environnement et les générations futures, et s''affranchir de toutes les règles internationales (protocole de Kyoto, Tribunal pénal international...) ? Comment l''Amérique, si longtemps admirée, peut-elle cristalliser désormais tant de haines chez ses alliés historiques ? Un réquisitoire implacable. A cause de Bush et des siens, le visage de l''Amérique est transformé pour une génération au moins. Selon le verdict des urnes, le pays pourrait rester défiguré à jamais...