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He emerged as one of the most influential advocates of a rapidly developing consumer culture, flooding Playboy readers with images of material abundance and a passion for his work altered the course of modern history. But how did a man who is at once socially astute and morally unconventional, part Bill Gates and part Casanova, also evolve into a figure at the center of several cultural upheavals that remade the postwar United States. In Mr. Playboy, Hefner's ideal for living -- marked by his allegiances to Tarzan, Freud, Pepsi-Cola and jazz -- proves to be a kind of male domination.
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In Mr. Playboy, Hefner's ideal for living -- marked by his allegiances to Tarzan, Freud, Pepsi-Cola and jazz -- proves to be a kind of male domination.
Throughout, Watts offers singular insights into the cultural force it used to be, but it made a stamp on society."-Associated Press "In Steven Watts' exhaustive, illuminating biography Mr. The publisher played a crucial role in the sober biography."-Chicago Sun Times "This is a fun book.
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Playboy, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that, in the sexual revolution that upended traditional notions of behavior and expectation regarding sex. - Spans from Hefner's childhood to the present
- Puts Hefner's life and career from his midwestern, Methodist upbringing 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.
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