News Summary

• Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America is a history of the magazine firm that has long epitomized the ultimate in fashion, celebrity, and literary distinction.
• Drew Friedman worked for all three of the chief editors pictured on the book’s dust jacket: Anna Wintour, Tina Brown, and Graydon Carter.
• The best of them all is Francine du Plessix Gray's psychologically penetrating 2005 memoir of Alexander Liberman.