No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. Change country: -Select- Australia Bermuda Canada Germany Greenland Japan Mexico New Zealand Puerto Rico Saint Pierre and Miquelon United Kingdom United States Virgin Islands (U. The Horatio-Alger-with-a-libido case he makes—where else but in America could a repressed midwestern boy rise, and fall into so many sacks, while creating and brand-managing a multimedia empire? A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. He is the author of The People’s Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century and The Magic Kingdom: Walt Disney and the American Way of Life.

Hugh Hefner started Playboy magazine in 1953 using purchased photos of Marilyn Monroe, and including the article "Miss Gold Digger 1953" about women who "manipulate the legal system for alimony. Neward, CA ( Library Journal , September 1, 2008) As he did in his previous books on Henry Ford ( The People′s Tycoon ) and Walt Disney ( The Magic Kingdom ), Watts carefully details the life of Hugh Hefner and the influence his Playboy magazine has had on American culture.

The Horatio-Alger-with-a-libido case he makes--where else but in America could a repressed midwestern boy rise, and fall into so many sacks, while creating and brand-managing a multimedia empire? Steven Watts's biography presents a more complex personality lurking behind the pipe and smoking jacket, and Ray Porter's courtly manner suggests indignation, and near envy, over Hefner's excesses.

constructs a nuanced portrait of Hefner′s life that also serves as a panorama of hip culture from the 1950s onward Sinatra, JFK and many others put in appearances. Playboy tells the compelling and uniquely American story of how one person with a provocative idea, a finger on the pulse of popular opinion, and a passion for his work altered the course of modern history. But Watts, a history professor prone to interpreting American Dreamers (he has written stellar works on Henry Ford and Walt Disney), is wise to draw a narrow bead on Hef qua Hef, dividing his life into tidy quadrants of postwar influence and iconography: as sexual liberator, avatar of consumerism, pop-culture purveyor, lightning rod for feminist ire.He shows Hefner's personal dichotomies-the pleasure seeker and the workaholic, the consort of countless Playmates and the genuine romantic, the family man and the Gatsby-like host of lavish parties at his Chicago and Los Angeles mansions who enjoys well-publicized affairs with numerous Playmates, the fan of life's simple pleasures who hobnobs with the Hollywood elite. Examining Playboy archives (Hef is something of a pack rat) and Hefner′s own journals, Watts (History/Univ. Though in time he would lose readers to more explicit magazines on one side and "lad" magazines on the other, the Playboy brand never lost its luster. Martin's, 2016) offers a compelling new reading of the 35th president as a cultural figure in modern America.

He proved instrumental-with his influential magazine, syndicated television shows, fashionable nightclubs, swanky resorts, and movie and musical projects-in making popular culture into a dominant force in many people's lives. Gorgeous young women in revealing poses; extravagant mansion parties packed with celebrities; a hot–tub grotto, elegant smoking jackets, and round rotating beds; the hedonistic pursuit of uninhibited sex. Watts convincingly argues that Hefner anticipated a number of distinct trends that transformed American society, including postwar consumerism, feminism (whose adherents, generally speaking, castigated Hef) and, of course, the′60s sexual revolution. Within his deeply religious family, he was doted on by his mother and neglected by a mostly absent father, creating "a child who was extraordinarily self-absorbed.Although advocating women''s sexual freedom and their liberation from traditional family constraints, the publisher became a whipping boy for feminists who viewed him as a prophet for a new kind of male domination. This book also illustrates how the social conditions of this post-war period changed to cater for the individual consumerist desires of today. Hefner resembles a chameleon in Watts's mostly sympathetic portrait, variously appearing as a prescient social critic, an early supporter of civil rights, a generous Gatsby figure and a cranky, obsessive sex addict. Watts outlines the man and magazine's influence on the country's notions of personal liberation, sexual freedom, and material abundance. Relating Hef's departure from Esquire magazine and subsequent role as editor-in-chief of Playboy, the story offers readers new insights into the life of one of the most renowned entrepreneurs of the 20th century.

We can all make up our own minds about this, but with numerous wives and "playmates" it is hard to say if absolute contentment is his. Newark Star Ledger ) ""Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Playboy, Hefner's ideal for living -- marked by his allegiances to Tarzan, Freud, Pepsi-Cola and jazz -- proves to be a kind of gloss on the Protestant work ethic. x 9 1/4 Book; binding tight, glossy pictorial wrappers have minor bumping to corners with modest folding to bottom rear wrapper; faint foxing to top edge with small soil spot to fore edge else text free of marks, appears unread.Hindi niya alam kung anong klaseng magnet ang mayroon sa babae dahil hindi niya maalis ang paningin dito.