Tina Brown. (2007). The Diana Chronicles. Unabridged Books on Tape.

Tina Brown. 2007. The Diana Chronicles. Books on Tape.

Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles. Books on Tape, 2007.

Tina Brown. The Diana Chronicles. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2007.

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   • bioText: Tina Brown was 25 when she became the editor in chief of England's oldest glossy, The Tatler, reviving the nearly defunct 270-year-old magazine with an attitude and style that gave it a 300 percent circulation rise. She went on to become the editor in chief of Vanity Fair and won four National Magazine Awards. In 1992 she became the first female editor of the New Yorker, where she raised circulation by 145 percent on the newsstand and was honored with four George Polk Awards, five Overseas Press Club Awards, and ten National Magazine Awards, including a 1995 award for General Excellence, the first in the magazine's history. She is also the author of The Diana Chronicles. Ms. Brown was awarded CBE (Commander of the British Empire) from Queen Elizabeth in 2000. She is married to Sir Harold Evans. The couple have two children and reside in New York.
     
     Rosalyn Landor is an English-born television, theater, and multiple-award-winning audiobook narrator. Her television credits include Love in a Cold Climate, Rumpole of the Bailey, Sherlock Holmes, and Star Trek: The Next Generation. She has won numerous Audie awards and AudioFile magazine Earphones awards.
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Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?
Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler–England’s glossiest gossip magazine–Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself.
In THE DIANA CHRONICLES, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: among them, Diana’s sexually charged mother, bad-girl sister-in-law Fergie, and, most formidable of all, her mother-in-law, the Queen. Add Camilla Parker Bowles into this combustible mix and it’s no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect.

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   • source: Caroline Weber
   • content: With "The Diana Chronicles," Tina Brown breathes new life into the saga of this royal "icon of blondness"
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   • source: Tunku Varadarajan
   • content: Only Ms. Brown could deploy such words as "hottie" and "propinquity"
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   • source: Patt Morrison
   • content: I read every whiplash chapter and came away rubbing my cervical vertebrae...."The Diana Chronicles,"
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   • source: Simon Schama, author of A History of Britain
   • content: "Nothing comes close to Tina Brown's book for its tight grip on the dark human comedy that was Diana's life and death. Brown knows the ritual dances, the shouts and whispers of the tribes of Britain better than anyone who has ever written this story but she also has a perfect ear for the way ordinary people responded to the doomed Princess. The result is a compulsively page-turning trip to the poisoned place where class met glamour and the result was catastrophe."
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   • source: Michael Korda, author of Charmed Lives and Ike
   • content: "This is not only first-rate biography, but a marvelous social history, and a bitingly accurate portrait of the English upper classes."
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   • source: Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great
   • content: "Tina Brown has produced something that is, as well as absorbing and stirring, witty and penetrating."
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   • source: Walter Isaacson, author of Einstein: His Life and Universe
   • content: "A delightfully smart and insightful book that... weaves a compelling human drama into a rich social history."
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   • content: Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of TATTLER, offers an insider's view of a young woman caught up in a whirlwind, and Rosalyn Landor's cultivated voice delivers the saga of Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales, with dignity and distance. The fairy-tale princess, adored by the press and the public, was considerably more than a two-dimensional cutout. She was neither liked by nor welcomed into the Royal Family, and was largely ignored by Prince Charles. Brown notes that pretty little Diana was a spoiled and bratty child, and that as a young woman she was capable of calculated viciousness. Full of juicy tidbits, the book depicts Diana from spirited youngster to media darling, managing to avoid sounding like backstairs gossip or tabloid prurience, thanks largely to Landor's elegant narration. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine
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     June 4, 2007
     Princess Diana was "the best thing to happen" to the British royals "since the restoration of Charles II," concludes Brown in this dishy biography, and the royal family's error was not realizing that. It's tough to pigeonhole a peacock, but Brown, former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, tries, calling the late Diana a diva, "a siren of subversion" who "even as a small girl... had been dangerous when hurt." Brown shows how Diana excelled at manipulating the media; her in-laws could only stand by helplessly as she captivated the cameras by batting her eyes or lowering them in her trademark "Shy Di" look. So enamored of herself was Diana, according to Brown, that she claimed not to understand why a certain cardiologist preferred his work at the hospital to seeing after her. Brown interviewed more than 250 people, from Mikhail Baryshnikov (who found the late Princess "so much more beautiful than any photographs or TV") to a friend of Diana's late mother, who says that mum disapproved of her daughter's too hasty royal marriage and tried talking her out of it. In the battle of unpleasant revelations made by both sides in the Di-Charles battles, Brown speculates that Squidgy-gate was the product of MI5 bugging the royal phones. Brown gives her book a tabloid-lingo touch and can fall into melodrama (while everyoneo saw Di's life as a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, the author says, it "was becoming more like something out of Hitchcock"), but then, given the nature of the subject matter, a little melodrama is entirely fitting. However, the final portrait of Diana as a heroine who broke free of the royal bonds and changed the monarchy forever will be familiar to most readers.

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      September 1, 2007
      Few modern women have been more adored, more loved, more photographed, and more written about than Princess Diana. Yet according to Brown, former editor in chief ofTatler magazine, "England's golden child" struggled with psychic scars from childhood emotional traumas that were impacted by life in the tabloid-driven fish bowl that is the British royal family. The author has brought her journalistic experience and extensive Rolodex of contacts to bear on the late princess; she reexamines the tumultuous life of the woman the world thought it knew. Brown's book depicts a Diana who is more than a porcelain saint; her collusions with the media proved to be her undoing. Her championing of the less-fortunate is juxtaposed with her treatment of her staff and stepmother alongside her mercurial relationships with her mother, her former sister-in-law, Fergie, and men, single and married. Along with her English accent and actress's timing, Rosalyn Landor brings a cadenced elegance to the reading that is further enhanced by her beautiful diction and rich dramatizations. Containing entertainment as well as some journalistic value, this gossipy tramp through a life picked over too much will be in demand; recommended to libraries with medium to large collections of pop culture and biography.-David Faucheux, Louisiana Audio Information & Reading Svc., Lafayette

      Copyright 2007 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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    • content: August 31, 1997. Tina Brown opens her intimate, gossipy, scandalous, and sad biography of Diana, Princess of Wales, "the most famous woman in the world," with the end of her life. Brown, a former editor of VANITY FAIR and THE NEW YORKER, paints a rich and colorful portrait of an icon who eventually becomes a caricature of herself. But as narrator, Brown isn't up to the formidable task of delivering the fascinating melodrama with enough skill to capture her listeners. She slogs through Diana's early years in a dull, slurring voice that often blurs her words and then suddenly builds to a speed that rushes important events. She finally hits her stride (unfortunately, too late) with a moving, genuinely emotional climax. M.T.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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      September 24, 2007
      Tina Brown's long-awaited biography of Princess Diana is read by the author—a British legend in her own right. Brown's recital is colorful but limited by her rushed, occasionally slurred delivery, which detracts from her prose. The abridged version of the book hits the high notes of this lengthy bio, offering a condensed but worthwhile version of Diana's journey toward British royalty and her eventual tragic end. But as a reader, Brown hurries through even this shorter version, occasionally dropping syllables or speeding through phrases that are thus nearly incomprehensible. On other occasions, she carefully enunciates each syllable, emphasizing her British diction but rendering her reading more actress performance than nuanced reading. Simultaneous release with the Doubleday hardcover (reviewed online).

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Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she “the people’s princess,” who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy?
Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler–England’s glossiest gossip magazine–Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself.
In THE DIANA CHRONICLES, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: among them, Diana’s sexually charged mother, bad-girl sister-in-law Fergie, and, most formidable of all, her mother-in-law, the Queen. Add Camilla Parker Bowles into this combustible mix and it’s no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power...

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