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Playboy's Hugh Hefner: Empire of Skin, Paperback / softback Book

Playboy's Hugh Hefner: Empire of Skin Paperback / softback

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Hefner, the Playboy of the Western World, was a visionary publisher, an empire-builder, an avatar of pleasure, and a pajama-clad pipe-smoker with a pre-coital grin.

In 1953, he published his first edition of Playboy, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover and her nude calendar inside.

He obtained the rights for $500 with money borrowed from his puritanical Nebraska-born mother.

In addition to his role as a 'tasteful pornographer,' Hef became a cultural warrior, fighting government censorship all the way to the U.S.

Supreme Court after the Post Office refused to deliver his magazine to its subscribers.

As the years and his notoriety progressed, he became an advocate of abortion, LGBT equality, and the legalization of pot.

Eventually, he engaged in 'pubic wars' with Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse, which cut into Hef’s sales.

During his heyday, some of the biggest male stars in Hollywood, including Warren Beatty, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mick Jagger, and Jack Nicholson, came to frolic behind Hef’s guarded walls, stripping nude in the hot tube grotto before sampling the rotating beds upstairs.

This ground-breaking biography, the latest in Blood Moon’s string of outrageously unvarnished myth-busters, is the first published since Hefner’s death at the age of 91 in 2017.

It is a provocative saga, rich in tantalizing, often shocking detail — definitely not for the sanctimonious or the faint of heart.

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