Vanity Fair 100 Years Coffee Table Book

Vanity Fair 100 Yearsshowcases a century of personality and power, art and commerce, crisis and cultureboth highbrow and low. From its inception in 1913, through the Jazz Age and the Depression, to its reincarnation in the boom-boom Reagan years, to the image-saturated Information Age,Vanity Fairhas presented the modern era as it has unfolded, using wit, imagination, peerless literary narrative, and bold, groundbreaking imagery from the greatest photographers, artists, and illustrators of the day. This sumptuous book takes a decade-by-decade look at the world as seen by the magazine, stopping to describe the incomparable editor Frank Crowninshield and the birth of the Jazz AgeVanity Fair, the magazines controversial rebirth in 1983, and the history of the glamorousVanity FairOscar Party.

With its exhaustive sweep, visual impact, and time-capsule format,Vanity Fair 1