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"""A buoyant and persuasive account of how the company's fluctuating fortunes reflect American's shifting attitudes toward dress, shopping, and identity."" -- The New Yorker ""Ms. Bullock is a crackerjack writer who can keep a narrative moving."" -- Wall Street Journal ""An insightful, candid, and engrossing story about the American Dream, rollneck sweaters, and the incredible value of the stories we tell through what we wear."" -- Town & Country ""Smart, funny...A lively and fascinating read, no matter what you wear."" -- People ""Maggie Bullock's very soul wears a J.Crew sweater. The Kingdom of Prep is the maddest, wildest, sharpest book about fashion of the past decade - it dissects the industry with warm wit and devastating precision."" -- E.Jean Carroll, author of What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal ""The Kingdom of Prep is a fashion-biz chronicle that reads like a page-turner. But it's also the story of American style writ large - and how what we wear reflects our national character. You'll never look at a rollneck sweater in the same way again."" -- Véronique Hyland, author of Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink ""The Kingdom of Prep dives deep into the allure of an empire originally built on broken-in basics and fireside photo shoots, offering a guided tour through catalogue booms, billion-dollar investment deals, models, fashion shows, and true style stardom in the Mickey Drexler and Jenna Lyons era. In this entertaining, behind-the-scenes insider account, Maggie Bullock shows us how J.Crew captured - then lost, then captured again - the zeitgeist of American privilege and membership to a club that defies definition, yet is ever present in our psyche."" -- Marisa Meltzer, author of This Is Big: How the Founder of Weight Watchers Changed the World"

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Maggie Bullock began her career as an editor at Vogue and was ELLE's deputy editor from 2010 to 2018, overseeing fashion and beauty coverage and reporting on the intersection of style and culture. As a freelance journalist, she has written cover stories and features for the Economist, Vogue, ELLE, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Marie Claire, and New York magazine. She is co-creator of the Spread, a cult-beloved newsletter covering the best of women's media (www.thespread.media). She lives with her husband and two sons in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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