EXCLUSIVE BOOK EXCERPT
The Secrets of His Succession
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book about Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of The Wall Street Journal, Michael Wolff has an inside look at the shifting power struggles among Murdoch’s six children and his attractive new wife, Wendi Deng.
CAMPAIGN PHOTO SPECIAL
MEDIA
Niall Ferguson
The Financial Fiasco Explained
SETH MNOOKIN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MEDIA
Who Is Wall Street’s Queen B.?
Is CNBC big enough for “Money Honey” Maria Bartiromo and “Street Sweetie” Erin Burnett? Suzanna Andrews checks for signs of a brewing battle.
LETTER FROM LONDON
Cherie Bomb
The most controversial prime minister’s wife in recent memory, Cherie Blair has written a best-selling memoir that adds racy fuel to the fire. Leslie Bennetts reports.
credit crunch
Reversal of Fortune
Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz puts forth a clear, commonsense plan to reverse the Bush-era follies and regain America’s economic sanity.
Dungeon master
Dr. Nicholas and Mr. Hyde
Lots of billionaires behave badly, but Henry Nicholas really takes the cake, hosting drug-fueled orgies in his secret lair and spiking colleagues’ drinks with Ecstasy. Bethany McLean investigates.
POWER
The New Establishment
Keep up with the moguls and machers of the V.F. 100 all year long with our new interactive database, featuring live news feeds, searchable archives, blog updates, and multi-media charts
MOVIES
If You Liked Nixon …
Todd S. Purdum previews this month’s W, Oliver Stone’s tragicomic, warts-and-all (and there are warts) portrait of our president, as Nigel Parry photographs the Cabinet recast.
SCANDAL
The Follieri Charade
Raffaello Follieri had the love of Anne Hathaway and entrée to Bill Clinton’s inner circle. Now the 30-year-old Italian is in jail. Michael Shnayerson investigates.
MEDIA
Tuesdays with Rupert
Since buying The Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch has talked freely with Michael Wolff about his business, his family, and the future. (There was serious gossip, too.)
EXCERPT
The Man Who Was Texas
Glenn McCarthy defined the swaggering Texas oilman for 1940s America. Bryan Burrough examines how the quintessential self-made tycoon also self-destructed.
ON LOCATION
Convention Conversation
Read Todd S. Purdum and Dee Dee Myers’s updates and watch their videos from the 2008 Democratic and Republican conventions.
DISPATCHES
Day of the Crocodile
Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler, Robert Mugabe, made a brutal sham of recent elections, after banning Western journalists. Peter Godwin, a native, reports from the inside on Mugabe’s campaign of terror—and those who’ve confronted “The Fear.”
COVER STORY
Paris Match
The French may not love President Nicolas Sarkozy, but they seem to approve of his sexy new wife, Carla Bruni. Maureen Orth reports. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Plus: See Bruni’s wildest runway looks.
TERROR TACTICS
Believe Me, It’s Torture
What does it feel like to be waterboarded? To find out, Christopher Hitchens undergoes the controversial drowning technique, at the hands of men who once trained American soldiers to resist—not inflict—it. Plus: Watch Hitchens get waterboarded.
BUBBA TROUBLE
The Comeback Id
Wondering how Hillary Clinton’s biggest booster became such a liability to her presidential campaign, Todd S. Purdum gets several diagnoses from an increasingly alienated inner circle.
THE COLLAPSE
Bringing Down Bear Stearns
Did the investment bank die of natural causes or was it, as some suspect, murder? Bryan Burrough reports. Video: Watch the author discuss his investigation.
A League of Their Own
Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution
Some of the greatest baseball players the world has never seen are in Cuba. Michael Lewis flies to Havana to scout the talent. Plus: VF Daily interviews the author.
INVESTIGATION
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Monsanto already controls America’s genetically modified food supply. Now it’s targeting milk. Barlett and Steele report on the company’s ruthless tactics and toxic history.
PORTFOLIO
The Heartbreak Campaign
In 1968, photographer Bill Eppridge chronicled Robert F. Kennedy’s historic—and doomed—presidential run.
