The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots

Overview

For the last two decades, The New York Observer has documented the Platinum Age of New York, when the city's new elite rose and dominated society, media, business, and culture with an amusing arrogance that redefined the power capital of the world. The Kingdom of New York jauntily chronicles the Rise and Fall and Rise of New York City, as personified by the protagonists and antagonists of the past twenty years, told in archival pastiche-a breathtaking sprint of headlines, great reporting, witty writing, and stories in fashion, ideas, real estate, style, media, movies, politics, sex, and finance.All of New York's major players are here-including Bill and Hillary, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, Anderson Cooper-as well as essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese. Here, too, are many of the country's finest journalists reporting on the high opulence of the 1990s; the wry irony of the Seinfeld years; the poignant loss of John Kennedy Jr.;

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Bio of The New York Observer

The New York Observer was founded in 1987. It covers politics, media, society, real estate, fashion, business, culture, and entertainment in the power capital of the world. It is published weekly as a newspaper and ceaselessly at www.observer.com.

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Imprint

HarperCollins e-books

Filesize

19.81 MB

Number of Pages

368

eBook ISBN

9780061959660