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In the 2002 best-seller "The Nanny Diaries," the N.Y.U. graduates Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin, who had spent some time taking care of children on the Upper East Side, pooled their anecdotes, merged into a single voice, and compiled a fiction about a young nanny's suffering at the hands of a tyrannical Park Avenue couple. The book was both a cry of exasperation and an attack on the fatuity of wealth. Near the beginning, the heroine walks into a room and encounters what she calls "the full range of Upper East Side diversity--half the women are dressed in Chanel suits and Manolo Blahniks, half are in six-hundred-dollar ...