Condé Nast · the Man and His Empire by Ronald, Susan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Note on Spelling and Expressions Prologue: The Ringmaster—1919 Part I: How to Make a Millionaire

1. Living Down Mr. Disappoint 2. Fanny’s “Even-Handed” Justice 3. It’s Not What You Know … 4. The Adman Before Mad Men 5. Battling the Fakirs, Swindlers, and Manufacturers of Bad Whiskeys 6. A Natural Talent to Sniff Out Life’s Pattern 7. How to Build a New Woman’s Railroad

Part II: The Man Who Made Vogue, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and So Much More …

8. The Genie Bean Counter and His Class Publication 9. What Women Want 10. Couturiers, Cutthroats, and Conflict 11. The Spirited Mrs. Chase Lands Her Big Fish 12. Enter Stage Right Frank Crowninshield—and Brogue 13. From Vanity Fair to Mayhem 14. Back to the Business of “Fried Fish and Stewed Eels” 15. How to Keep a Park Bench Warm

Part III: Roaring with the Twenties

16. “Ain’t We Got Fun?” 17. The High Priestess Meets Her Forces of Nature 18. All Those Flaming “Bright Young Things” 19. Let the Good Times Roll 20. The New and Renewed Kids in Town 21. Fireflies in the Garden Paradise 22. Casting for Pearls 23. Boom, Crash, Bang, Clatter

Part IV: Saving the Empire

24. Beware of Frenemies 25. In the Death Throes 26. The Stain of Defection 27. A Very British Salvation 28. But Who’s to Save Vanity Fair? 29. “Of Cabbages…” 30. “… and Kings” 31. Answering the Distant Cry of War

Part V: With the Eye of an Eagle

32. How to Win in the End 33. The King Is Dead 34. A New Leaf 35. A New House, a New Empire Coda

Photographs Author’s Note and Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Select Bibliography Notes

Notes: Prologue Notes 1 Notes 2 Notes 3 Notes 4 Notes 5 Notes 6 Notes 7 Notes 8 Notes 9 Notes 10 Notes 11 Notes 12 Notes 13 Notes 14 Notes 15 Notes 16 Notes 17 Notes 18 Notes 19 Notes 20 Notes 21 Notes 22 Notes 23 Notes 24 Notes 25 Notes 26 Notes 27 Notes 28 Notes 29 Notes 30 Notes 31 Notes 32 Notes 33 Notes 34 Notes 35

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