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Michael M. Grynbaum

Biography

Michael M. Grynbaum

Michael M. Grynbaum is a correspondent for The New York Times, where he covers media, politics and culture. Since joining The New York Times as a staff writer at age 22, he has reported on three presidential campaigns, two New York City mayors, and the 2008 financial crisis. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and literature, and lives in Manhattan.

Michael M. Grynbaum

Books by Michael M. Grynbaum

Empire of the Elite: Inside Condé Nast, the Media Dynasty That Reshaped America
by Michael M. Grynbaum - History, Nonfiction, Popular Culture

For decades, Condé Nast and its glittering magazines defined how to live the good life in America. The brilliant, complicated, striving characters behind Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, GQ, Architectural Digest and many other titles manufactured a vision of luxury and sophistication that shaped consumer habits, cultural trends, intellectual attitudes and political beliefs the world over. Condé’s billionaire owner, Si Newhouse, and his stable of star editors, photographers and writers were the gatekeepers who decided what and who mattered, and they offered those opinions to tens of millions of readers every month. EMPIRE OF THE ELITE is full of fresh behind-the-scenes reporting about a plethora of boldface names and sets out to explain how Condé Nast established itself as a de facto American aristocracy, anointing an elite and dictating the culture they presided over.