{"product_id":"the-kingdom-of-new-york-knights-knaves-billionaires-and-beauties-in-the-city-of-big-shots-isbn-9780061695407","title":"The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Kingdom of New York\u003c\/em\u003e is rollicking insider's history of contemporary New York, as seen through the lens of the city’s most irreverent newspaper, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e. Handsomely designed with great drawings, cartoons, and other illustrations throughout and filled with the paper’s unique attention to politics, status, and wealth, this unique insider’s view features essays by Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen, and Martin Scorsese, and covers such iconic New York personalities as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, Graydon Carter, Katie Couric, Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, Tina Fey, J. Lo, Seinfeld, Tina Brown, and Anderson Cooper. | \u003cp\u003eFor the last two decades, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Observer\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eThe Kingdom of New York\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll 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 \u003cem\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/em\u003e years; the poignant loss of John Kennedy Jr.; and the inconceivable assault of September 11, 2001, and New York's rallying return. Among it all are signature features—from Candace Bushnell's \"Sex and the City\" columns as they initially appeared to the couples counseling of \"George and Hilly\"—as the \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e grew into one of the city's most influential papers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHandsomely designed and filled with the paper's trademark attention to politics, status, and wealth, this is a rollicking insider's account of contemporary New York. At once wickedly funny and astute, \u003cem\u003eThe Kingdom of New York\u003c\/em\u003e is a striking tribute to an unforgettable era in the city's history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889170903269,"sku":"NP9780061695407","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780061695407.jpg?v=1730230672","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-kingdom-of-new-york-knights-knaves-billionaires-and-beauties-in-the-city-of-big-shots-isbn-9780061695407","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}