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By Michael M. Grynbaum

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Molding America’s tastes for everything from fashion and beauty to food and architecture, Condé Nast’s impact reached far and wide. Now, we get the inside scoop on the media empire that has been pivotal in influencing the masses for over a century.

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through the 2000s.

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 sophistica...