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	Michael Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington (August 9, 1915, Manchester (A city in northwestern England (30 miles east of Liverpool); heart of the most densely populated area of England) - January 14, 2002) was a British (The people of Great Britain) sociologist, social activist and politician.
		Young's father was an Australia (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) n violinist and music critic, his mother a bohemian painter and actor.
		Toby Young (additional info and facts about Toby Young), Michael Young's son with Moorsom, is a celebrity journalist and writer, best-known for his book, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/michael_young.htm (655 words)

	Encyclopedia: Toby Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Toby Young is a high-flying British journalist, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his disastrous five-year attempt to make it in the U.S.
		Young's father was Michael Young, sociologist, politician and member of the House of Lords.
		The rejection of Young coincided with the peak of her supposed affair with Charlotte Raven, at a time when Raven was apparently very keen to replace Young as editor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Toby-Young (1218 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young's strength lies in his blistering honesty: he is not afraid to say that he was lonely, sad or out of place in New York - some of the books most memorable scenes occur when he writes of the social gaffes he makes at the parties and launches which he so desperately attends.
		Toby Young arrives in New York expecting to the presented with a smorgasbord of attractive women bowled over by his English accent, evident (at least to him) intelligence and his celebrity connections (from his position at Vanity Fair).
		Toby Young comes from the great British tradition of intellectual scepticism (lapsing into cynicism and negativity) and through this filter he is often startlingly perceptive about Vanity Fair, New York and the USA in general.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/030681188X (1950 words)

	Toby Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toby Young (born Toby Daniel Moorsom Young in 1963) is a homuncular high-flying British journalist, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his disastrous five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Conde Nast Publications' Vanity Fair magazine.
		Young's father was Michael Young, Lord Young of Dartington, a Labour peer and pioneering sociologist who invented the term "meritocracy." His mother was the novelist, sculptor and painter Sasha Moorsom.
		The decision led to a fierce public battle with Burchill and her lover, Charlotte Raven, a writer at the magazine, who accused him of being a spoiled child and compared him to Hitler.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toby_Young (458 words)

	Meritocracy's Lab Rat - Toby Young pens an unconscious sequel to The Rise of the Meritocracy. By Timothy Noah
		Toby Young is a minor legend for the appalling swiftness with which he failed at American magazine journalism, a niche not previously known for its hostility to the English.
		Toby reveres his father, as well he should, yet indulges in an infantile celebrity worship that mocks his father's egalitarianism.
		Toby rejects the notion of romantic love, but becomes fixated on marrying his ex-girlfriend, Caroline, who, readers learn, has "Baywatch tits, perfect 34Ds." Although Caroline comes across in Toby's book as an extremely level-headed beauty, she agrees to marry him, which furnishes the book a truly unexpected happy ending.
	www.slate.com /id/2060586 (1418 words)

	village voice > books > How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young by Joy Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young's parents were members of the liberal intelligentsia—his father founded England's Open University to provide higher education for working-class people and coined the term "meritocracy." Young says, "It was partly a reaction to that background that led me to idealize American mass culture.
		Young caricatures himself in the book as a starstruck dunderhead panting to get into A-list parties and toadying up to movie stars, while Graydon Carter comes off as an indulgent but elusive character who inexplicably gives Toby chance after chance to redeem himself.
		Young makes some astute critiques of American media and popular culture, but much of it seems hypocritical: He chose to immerse himself in frivolous effluvia, then proclaims horror at its superficiality.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0228/press.php (1018 words)

	Is Toby Young the worst journalist in the world?
		Young famously wrote a vile rant against the working classes, to the effect that they were a scrofulous half-breed, diseased, drugged and criminal, a great decline from the nobility of Labour in his father's day.
		Young starts going on about how this was a truly heroic struggle and a just war, and that this was militarism that you could be proud of.
		Young, knowing that the game was up, hung his head in shame - defeated by someone who knew what he was talking about, and had real feelings not Young's ersatz passion.
	mailman.lbo-talk.org /1999/1999-August/013273.html (659 words)

	Sacramento News and Review July 18, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Toby Young came to New York City in 1995, the up-and-coming British journalist was, despite his diminutive stature and thinning hair, walking tall and holding his head up high.
		Try as he might, Young could rarely get more than a chuckle out of his new boss, who continually rejected Young’s wild story pitches, such as the one where he volunteered to go to a neighborhood AA meeting and pop open a can of beer.
		Young’s effortless and frequently funny prose is entertaining for the duration of the voyage, from which he somehow manages to extract a happy ending.
	www.newsreview.com /issues/sacto/2002-07-18/book.asp (718 words)

	Bookslut \| How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
		Young was a gadfly freelance journalist in London during the late '80s and early '90s.
		It's tempting to accuse Young of racism here, but he routinely shrugs off accusations of insensitivity by casting himself as the victim of some fictional PC goon squad.
		Young's writing is pedestrian and unexceptional -- no better or worse than the average Maxim magazine staffer -- and his brand of aggressive charmlessness makes the book a singularly unpleasant read.
	www.bookslut.com /nonfiction/2003_08_000380.php (772 words)

	Toby Young
		I meet Toby Young (his website) at the Chateau Marmont at 8221 Sunset Blvd (where John Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982) at 1PM, Monday, June 16, 2003.
		Toby is a self-effacing gentle soul, a dramatic contrast to the drunk and coke-sniffing lout of his book.
		In the play, the Toby character says he knew he'd lost faith in America when a female journalist told him at a party that she sympathized with him taking care of his 84-year old father (a highly respected Labor party intellectual).
	www.lukeford.net /profiles/profiles/toby_young.htm (4378 words)

	Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant: Toby Young
		Young didn’t watch his mother and father die within 32 days or have a younger brother to care for.
		Young was a hotshot Oxford man and Fulbright scholar who had made a name in the Fleet Street skids with The Modern Review, a highbrow look at lowbrow culture that featured early work from such contributors as Will Self and Nick Hornby.
		Young can proselytize John Belushi-antics all he wants, but his sentiments are undermined by the despicable treatment he ekes out to loved ones and peers.
	www.edrants.com /reluctant/000985.html (739 words)

	BBC News \| FILM \| Vanity project set for screen
		Toby Young's book How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, about working for Vanity Fair magazine, was on the UK best-seller list for 22 weeks.
		The book begins with Young talking his way into an Oscars party by pretending to be a friend of his, and goes on to describe a number of other audacious ventures.
		He ordered a stripper for the office on the same day that all the staff had taken their young children to work, and was known for asking A-list actors about their sexual orientations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/entertainment/film/1917025.stm (419 words)

	TheMovieAddict.com :: Rants :: Toby Young is an Idiot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Young is a pretentious coward, hiding behind the face of journalism whilst endlessly putting down celebrities who he oh-so-desperately is in envy of.
		Toby Young got drunk a lot, wrote very little, got nailed reselling old pieces to different publications, was caught passing off in print an urban legend as something he personally experienced (that got him suspended from New York Press newspaper), and generally annoyed people by being an obnoxious jerk.
		Toby doesn’t mention why the act has come to an end, but one source informs me that it was due to the fact that it received virtually no attention whatsoever, and performed poorly.
	www.themovieaddict.com /rants/tobyyoung.html (2342 words)

	Weblog \| tobyyoung.co.uk
		Young and Evans have announced their decision to quit while they're ahead with the fringe production and forego a commercial transfer.
		A wise move, since this is one show ideally matched to its venue: a rough-and-tumble affair that plays well in the intimate (to put it politely) confines of the King's Head, a theater seemingly always on the verge of collapse.
		Young and Evans deftly juggle three separate couplings that tend to converge in Johnson's office, a den of carnality in which the exigencies of magazine journalism would seem to matter less than clambering in and out of the cupboard adjoining that foldout bed.
	www.tobyyoung.co.uk (1658 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Toby Young is back with the eagerly awaited followup to his account of a hilariously failed attempt to conquer the Manhattan social and professional scene in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People.
		But Toby remains Toby, and what Graydon Carter of Vanity Fair called Toby's "brown thumb" continues to work its magic, transforming opportunities into cringeworthy debacles and leading to situations that are classic Toby Young territory.
		Toby gleefully recounts such dubious journalistic assignments as posing as a patient at a penis-enlargement clinic and as a greeter at a Wal-Mart.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306814560?v=glance (561 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" by Toby Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Toby Young's gossip-strewn memoir of failure in the vicious world of glossy Manhattan magazines doesn't seem like a book to take very seriously, especially right now.
		Young's outsider's take on America's status fetish does a lot to illuminate the cult of work that has given us such things as the 60-hour week, celebrity CEOs, magazine editors and chefs, and the demise of old-school journalists' blue-collar sympathies.
		Young's whole personality becomes a reaction against this attitude, a way of advertising his "hostility to the liberal intelligentsia." Of course, this pose is itself a kind of post-ironic irony, a Warholian irony that cloaks itself in gee-whiz earnestness.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2002/06/17/young (874 words)

	Powell's Books - Review-a-Day - How to Lose Friends & Alienate People by Toby Young, reviewed by Powells.com
		He may act like the love child of a cockney tart, but Toby Young really is the son of a British Lord, and a prominent one at that.
		Michael Young, who coined the word meritocracy, is not only a prominent British intellectual, he was also one of the architects of the social revolution that forever altered British society after WWII.
		Young supports his opinions with quotes from a handful of more legitimate thinkers — Alexis de Tocqueville, Freud, his own father — as well as his own observations of the culture at Condé Nast (which he wittily dubs Condé Nasty).
	www.powells.com /review/2002_09_07.html (745 words)

	The Modern Review, by Toby Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A decade before Toby Young achieved notoriety in the New York media world with How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, his tell-all tome about life at Vanity Fair, British readers got a taste of how the young writer could shake things up.
		Young says 25 percent of the folio was sold as ads, which fetched on average $1,000 each.
		Young decided to shutter the magazine but only after publishing his version of the going-out-of-business story in the final May issue.
	preview.foliomag.com /classics/marketing_modern_review (776 words)

	Bibliofemme: How To Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young
		Young ponders his lack of luck with women throughout, but the amount of gauche sexism in the book should give him his answer.
		Toby Young's account of his lacklustre efforts in Glossy land is narcissistically clichéd but saved from trashiness by his self-deprecating humour.
		In Young's David and Goliath tale, Goliath triumphs but not before the underdog has achieved a couple of things - by undermining the vainglorious reputation of the Manhattan glossies and in revealing their inability to laugh at themselves, Young has the last laugh.
	www.bibliofemme.com /others/losefriends.shtml (1308 words)

	National Review Online (http://www.nationalreview.com)
		Toby had at the time written a kicking-over-the-traces story for the Press about his years at Vanity Fair, where he'd distinguished himself mainly by his complete failure to understand the tacit rules of the celebrity interview.
		Toby wasn't bitter; his troubles in the world of U.S. media had as much to do with himself as with the prevailing glossy magazine attitude of celebrity a**-kissing, as he well knew.
		Toby's father was the late sociologist Michael Young, a social democrat who coined the word "meritocracy" in the '50s.
	nationalreview.com /script/printpage.p?ref=/seipp/seipp200406230848.asp (1162 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Reviews: "Toby Young was the toast of the town: burnt toast, falling to the floor butter side down.
		Description: Toby Young's account of his career suicide is a lesson for all ambitious British media types expecting New York to open its doors to them.
		About the Author: Toby Young was born in 1963.
	bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53510865&ref=list+... (209 words)

	Peter Fallow -- Bizarro World Romenesko!!: Meet Toby Young
		Assigned to profile Nathan Lane, Toby asked the actor "Are you Jewish?" followed by "Are you gay?" At that point Lane's publicist declared the interview over...
		Then there was the time Toby cornered Mel Gibson at the Vanity Fair Oscars party the year Gibson swept the Oscars for Braveheart, about the Scottish national hero.
		Toby wanted to know why Gibson had such a grudge against the English.
	peterfallow.blogspot.com /2004/06/meet-toby-young.html (150 words)

	Salon Letters \| Letters to the Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Please inform Toby Young that the Fourth of July does not celebrate the anniversary of the colonists' defeat of his "tiny little island." It commemorates the signing of a document that declared those colonists' independence from one of the largest empires the world has ever known.
		The ensuing war was an idea the British came up with on their own, and we do not celebrate any federal holidays that are associated with it.
		Toby Young hit on a the source of many social problems in America.
	www.salon.com /letters/1999/07/12/expat (489 words)

	Hire Red Stripe, Toby Young or John Evans with Performing Artistes. Call now: 01932 590 376.
		Toby Young is one of Britain's best-known young journalists.
		Earlier this year, Toby appeared as himself in the West End stage adaptation of his book and is due to reprise the role in New York this Autumn.
		"Young is a good raconteur, a handy impersonator and not a bad mimic.
	www.f4group.co.uk /month_01_2003.htm (655 words)

	Gawker Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We'd mostly forgotten about Toby Young, the British writer who managed to turn his coffee break at Vanity Fair into a cottage industry replete with book, movie deal, and status as the go-to commentator whenever Graydon Carter so much as burps the wrong way.
		Then we were confronted by Young in the pages of Times two weeks ago, in an arts piece by Sarah Lyall about the one-man stage ve...
		Toby Young, infamous former contributing editor at Vanity Fair, calls bullshit on VF editor Graydon Carter's denial of unethical behavior with his movie business ties.
	gawker.com /gossip/Toby+Young (1161 words)

	Is Toby Young the worst journalist in the world?
		Is Toby Young the worst journalist in the world?
		Next message: Is Toby Young the worst journalist in the world?
		But Toby Young really desperately needs to be conscripted into the army or something.
	mailman.lbo-talk.org /1999/1999-August/013270.html (608 words)

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		It will therefore not surprise many to find out that, between looking after two young daughters and working on a new idea for a fashion magazine over in America, Mandi has also just finished a book about sex, which promises to be a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic.
		She also "just loved" How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, in which Toby Young describes the collapse of his American dream.
		Young's experiences at the US publishing empire, Conde Nast, resonated with her own when she was editor of Mademoiselle magazine in New York from 2000 to 2001.
	www.jour.city.ac.uk /books/documents/features/mandi.htm (823 words)

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