Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America

Tanya

“I’m romping through my library copy of Empire of the Elite like it’s a Four Seasons martini lunch. I will never tire of reading about how the problematic sausage of culture is made!!”

A Side of Ranch: when I dip, you dip, we dip

“Aside from the fact that the description of the Condé Nast lunchroom seating chart gave me literal heart palpitations, this read was a true delight. It even inspired me to make a decades spanning playlist from the heyday of elite curation, with a few needle drops from the book itself: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7lMIhAPaxUazrHegpnzDWj?si=kcuOPPHPRe6hYbj0Mvb5-Q&pi=te0mDgpYR7WVH”