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Description
Fine gentlemen’s entertainment since 1953 Relive Playboy’s fifty-year history with this sweeping retrospective of the groundbreaking magazine that grew from Hugh Hefner’s pet project into an icon as recognizable as Disney and Coca-Cola. Visit Hef’s Playboy Mansion, canoodle with his... read more
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“There's no one who's liberated to the point of the American woman is and yet handles it worse. She holds her freedom like a club and beats the guy with it until he's got stars coming out of his head.”
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“No, nobody on the show takes drugs. In fact, two or three vice-presidents at NBC are not here because of Akroyd's undercover work"”
John Belushi
First Sentence
This book isn't intended for those who "only buy Playboy for the articles," because this is a book of images - the award-winning art, photography, cartoons and covers of the magazine that changed America - that literally transformed the social-sexual climate of the country in the second half of the 20th century and became the most popular and most influential men's magazine in the world.
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