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"This book was at least twice as long as it should have been and could have used a healthy dose of editing. As a result, it is somewhat of a slog featuring a myriad of short anecdotes (about 450 pages of them) that add up to Mr. Carter's entirety ..."
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Publisher Annotation: 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...
From the legendary musical figure and former vocalist of the J. Geils Band, whose career spans more than six decades, a treasure trove of revealing vignettes, all told with gentle humor and heartrending poignancy. ... Told as a series of...
In this long-awaited successor to his #1 national bestsellerThe Best and the Brightest,David Halberstam describes in fascinating human detail how the shadow of the Cold War still hangs over American foreign policy and how domestic politics have...
