KINGDOM OF NEW YORK

This is where the New York Observer’s most irreverent, incisive and wildly entertaining coverage of the city’s power players, scandals and social climbing comes to life. A rollicking insider’s history of contemporary New York, KINGDOM OF NEW YORK captures the rise, fall and inevitable resurrection of the city’s elite—from the high opulence of the ’90s to the grit and glamour of today. Expect a pastiche of razor-sharp headlines, iconic profiles and essays from literary and cultural heavyweights like Cynthia Ozick, Gay Talese, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. Whether dissecting the Clinton dynasty, Bloomberg’s empire, or the excesses of the media, fashion and finance elite, this is New York in all its amusing arrogance—politics, power and plenty of money included.