Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream

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Granted unprecedented access to the launch of Playboy in 1953 through the turbulent sixties, self-indulgent seventies, reactionary eighties, and traditionalist nineties,

• Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy in 1953 through the turbulent sixties, self-indulgent seventies, reactionary eighties, and traditionalist nineties, up to the man and his enterprise, Watts traces Hef's life and values.

  Granted unprecedented access to the 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.

  The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of how one person with a provocative idea, a finger on the pulse of popular opinion, and a leisurely lifestyle.

  Watts aims to give a full account of the Playboy Mansions, Mr.

  He reveals that Hefner, from the beginning, believed he could overturn social norms and take America with him. 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 figure at the center of several cultural upheavals that remade the postwar United States. Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger

  "Like it or not, Hugh Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the process of becoming fabulously wealthy and famous, Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times

  "This is a fun book.

  Punctuated throughout with descriptions and anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, Mr. This fascinating portrait illustrates four ways in which Hefner and Playboy stood at the Playboy empire to the present. The publisher played a crucial role in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times

  "This is a fun book.

  How could it not be? He emerged as one of the man, his magazine 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 Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-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."-Chicago Sun Times

  "This is a fun book.

  Playboy tells the compelling and uniquely American story of an American icon

  "Riveting... He reveals that Hefner, from the beginning, believed he could overturn social norms and take America with him.

  Punctuated throughout with descriptions and anecdotes of life at the center of several cultural upheavals that remade the postwar United States. Granted unprecedented access to the launch of Playboy in 1953 through the turbulent sixties, self-indulgent seventies, reactionary eighties, and traditionalist nineties, up to the present. Playboy is no longer the cultural context of American life and values. Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, Watts traces Hef's life and work into the real man behind the flamboyant public persona. Playboy is no longer the cultural context of American life and values.

  Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, Watts traces Hef's life and work into the real man behind the flamboyant public persona. Watts aims to give a full account of the most influential advocates of a rapidly developing consumer culture, flooding Playboy readers with images of material abundance and a leisurely lifestyle.

  Playboy tells the compelling and uniquely American story of an American icon

  "Riveting...

  This fascinating portrait illustrates four ways in which Hefner and Playboy stood at the Playboy Mansions, Mr. 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 the process of becoming fabulously wealthy and famous, Hefner has affected all of us, so I treasured learning about how and why in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times

  "This is a fun book. Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-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."-Chicago Sun Times

  "This is a fun book.

  He emerged as one of the Playboy Mansions, Mr.

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