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The Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots PDF

834 Pages·2009·25.32 MB·English
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The New York Observer Presents The Kingdom of New York Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties in the City of Big Shots As Seen by The New York Observer Introduction by Peter W. Kaplan Contents Our Illustrators Interviews The Kingdom of New York 1987-1990 1991-1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Searchable Terms Acknowledgements About the Author Credits Copyright About the Publisher OUR ILLUSTRATORS Barry Blitt has been contributing weekly caricatures to The Observer since 1991, when then-editor Graydon Carter called and asked for a portrait “the size of a softball.” Mr. Blitt’s work also appears regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vanity Fair and many other publications. Former “angry young man” Philip Burke first met Peter Kaplan at New Times, to which, along with The Village Voice, he was contributing mostly political caricatures. Among copious other magazine and newspaper work, he had long-running stints at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone before joining The Observer’s rotation in 1994. Aside from illustrating a monthly cover for The New York Observer since 1993, Drew Friedman’s work also appears in Time, Newsweek, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Mad and many others. Robert Grossman has done cover illustrations for more than 500 issues of national magazines such as Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone and The New Republic. Today his work can be seen regularly in The Nation, The New York Times and The Observer. His 1977 animated film, Jimmy the C., earned an Academy Award nomination. Victor Juhasz has drawn for Time, Newsweek and The New York Times as well as (since 2005) The Observer. He is a frequent contributor to the National Affairs section of Rolling Stone and serves on the board of directors of the Society of Illustrators. Interviews Arthur Carter Michael Thomas Graydon Carter Jim Windolf Terry Golway Susan Morrison and John Homans Peter Stevenson Candace Bushnell Frank DiGiacomo Jared Kushner

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For the last two decades, The New York Observer 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. The Kingdom of New York jauntily chronicles the Ris
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