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Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cooke, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he? Surely, it would only be a matter of time before the Big Apple was in the palm of his hand.īut things did not go according to plan.

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
