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The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon""Riveting... 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. How could it not be? Watts aims to give a full account of the man, his magazine and their place in social history. Playboy is no longer the cultural force it used to be, but it made a stamp on society.""-Associated Press""In Steven Watts' exhaustive, illuminating biography Mr. 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.""-Los Angeles TimesGorgeous 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 ***. Put these images together and a single name springs to mind-Hugh Hefner. From his spectacular launch of Playboy magazine and the dizzying expansion of his leisure empire to his recent television hit The Girls Next Door, the publisher has attracted public attention and controversy for decades. 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 forefront of cultural change?In Mr. Playboy, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that, in the process of becoming fabulously wealthy and famous, Hefner has profoundly altered American life and values. Granted unprecedented access to the man and his enterprise, Watts traces Hef's life and career from his midwestern, Methodist upbringing and the first publication of Playboy in 1953 through the turbulent sixties, self-indulgent seventies, reactionary eighties, and traditionalist nineties, up to the present. He reveals that Hefner, from the beginning, believed he could overturn social norms and take America with him.This fascinating portrait illustrates four ways in which Hefner and Playboy stood at the center of several cultural upheavals that remade the postwar United States. The publisher played a crucial role in the ***ual revolution that upended traditional notions of behavior and expectation regarding ***. 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 leisurely lifestyle. 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 ***nt force in many people's lives. Ironically, Hefner also became a controversial force in the movement for women's rights. Although advocating women's ***ual 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 ***tion.Throughout, Watts offers singular insights into the real man behind the flamboyant public persona. 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.Punctuated throughout with descriptions and anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, Mr. 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.Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy magazine and the expansion of t, Hardcover, Label: Wiley, Wiley, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2008-10-01, Studio: Wiley, Verkaufsrang: 736345.

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Gorgeous young women in coquettish, nude poses; extravagant mansion parties, complete with celebrity guests; hot-tub grottos; elegant smoking jackets; mirrored ceilings hovering above rotating circular beds; the enthusiastic promotion of wild, uninhibited ***: Put them all together, and a single name springs to mind - Hugh Hefner. But is the self-proclaimed hedonist who triggered and personified the ***ual revolution of the 1950s and 1960s really Mr. Playboy? Or is he Bill Gates with a very different operating system?In Mr. Playboy, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that, in the process of becoming fabulously wealthy, famous, and, in some circles, infamous, Hugh Hefner has had as great an impact on American life as any other individual entrepreneur in history. Drawing on unprecedented insider information form both Playboy and Hefner himself, Watt's traces Hef's life and career from his conventional mid-western upbringing and the publication of the very first issue of Playboy in 1952 through the turbulent sixties and self-indulgent seventies, and on up to the present. He reveals that, from the beginning, Hefner's interests,and eventually his influence and his empire, stretched far beyond naughty pictures straight to the heart of how Americans live their daily lives.This fascinating portrait illustrates four ways in which Hefner and Playboy both shaped and reflected a series of profound changes in post-war America. In addition to his undeniable role in the transformation of ***ual values and conduct in the 1950s, Hefner was one of the most persuasive advocates of the emerging consumer culture of the 1960s, flooding Playboy readers with symbols of material abundance and a leisure-rich lifestyle..Watts also shows how Hefner, with his popular magazine, syndicated television shows, franchised nightclubs, and movie and musical projects, was also instrumental in mainstreaming pop culture into a ***nt force in most people's lives.Hefner's role as an object of scorn for the feminist movement of the 1970s was a painful one. His claim that he was a progressive who advocated ***ual freedom for women as well as men carried no weight with feminists, who saw him as an advocate of the worst sort of male ***tion.Through it all, Hef continued to walk the Playboy walk. Watts offers singular insights into Hefner's remarkable double life as a workaholic pleasure seeker, running a huge and growing empire while throwing lavish parties at his Chicago and Los Angeles mansions and enjoying well-publicized affairs with numerous Playmates, including, most famously, Barbie Benton-all this while hobnobbing regularly with the Hollywood elite.Punctuated throughout with provocative anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, Mr. Playboy tells a compelling and uniquely American story of how one man with a timely idea, a genius for marketing, and a true passion for his work really did change the world.

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Gorgeous young women in coquettish, nude poses; extravagant mansion parties, complete with celebrity guests; hot-tub grottos; elegant smoking jackets; mirrored ceilings hovering above rotating circular beds; the enthusiastic promotion of wild, uninhibited sex: Put them all together, and a single name springs to mind - Hugh Hefner. But is the self-proclaimed hedonist who triggered and personified the sexual revolution of the 1950s and 1960s really Mr. Playboy? Or is he Bill Gates with a very different operating system?In Mr. Playboy, historian and biographer Steven Watts argues that, in the process of becoming fabulously wealthy, famous, and, in some circles, infamous, Hugh Hefner has had as great an impact on American life as any other individual entrepreneur in history. Drawing on unprecedented insider information form both Playboy and Hefner himself, Watt's traces Hef's life and career from his conventional mid-western upbringing and the publication of the very first issue of Playboy in 1952 through the turbulent sixties and self-indulgent seventies, and on up to the present. He reveals that, from the beginning, Hefner's interests,and eventually his influence and his empire, stretched far beyond naughty pictures straight to the heart of how Americans live their daily lives.This fascinating portrait illustrates four ways in which Hefner and Playboy both shaped and reflected a series of profound changes in post-war America. In addition to his undeniable role in the transformation of sexual values and conduct in the 1950s, Hefner was one of the most persuasive advocates of the emerging consumer culture of the 1960s, flooding Playboy readers with symbols of material abundance and a leisure-rich lifestyle..Watts also shows how Hefner, with his popular magazine, syndicated television shows, franchised nightclubs, and movie and musical projects, was also instrumental in mainstreaming pop culture into a dominant force in most people's lives.Hefner's role as an object of scorn for the feminist movement of the 1970s was a painful one. His claim that he was a progressive who advocated sexual freedom for women as well as men carried no weight with feminists, who saw him as an advocate of the worst sort of male domination.Through it all, Hef continued to walk the Playboy walk. Watts offers singular insights into Hefner's remarkable double life as a workaholic pleasure seeker, running a huge and growing empire while throwing lavish parties at his Chicago and Los Angeles mansions and enjoying well-publicized affairs with numerous Playmates, including, most famously, Barbie Benton-all this while hobnobbing regularly with the Hollywood elite.Punctuated throughout with provocative anecdotes of life at the Playboy Mansions, Mr. Playboy tells a compelling and uniquely American story of how one man with a timely idea, a genius for marketing, and a true passion for his work really did change the world.

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Mr-Playboy~~Steven-Watts, Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Hardcover.

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