Hef's Little Black Book

Zusatztext "[A] breezy! charming chronicle...Both gracious and unapologetic about Hef's...otherworldly existence....Striking." Informationen zum Autor Hugh M. Hefner founded Playboy magazine in 1953. In 1998, he was inducted into the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame, and he remains unquestionably the most famous magazine editor in the world. He lives at the Playboy Mansion West in Holmby Hills, California. Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestselling homage to Frank Sinatra, The Way You Wear Your Hat , and Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman . A recipient of the prestigious ASME Award for Profile Writing, he has written for Esquire , Rolling Stone , Playboy , and Vanity Fair , as well as the collection Intimate Strangers: Comic Profiles and Indiscretions of the Very Famous . He lives in Chicago. Klappentext Nearly six decades ago, Hugh Marston Hefner created Playboy magazine, which effectively ignited America’s sexual revolution. The greatest living symbol of the Good Life, Hef created a world for himself that most men have yearned to inhabit, if only briefly, just to know what it’s like to be him. In Hef ’s Little Black Book , this universally envied international icon offers a treasury of his often wry and heartfelt wisdom as it applies to the realms of romance, hedonism, ambition, business—and, of course, sex. Accompanied by tantalizing never-before-seen photographs from his vast private archive, Hef ’s Little Black Book is the gateway to Hugh Hefner’s irresistibly beguiling world. If you don’t swing, don’t ring—lingerie and pajamas optional. Zusammenfassung "[A] breezy! charming chronicle." — Time Out New York The legendary founder of Playboy magazine! Hugh Hefner invites you into his world with Hef's Little Black Book ! an illustrated treasury of advice and maxims. The only book ever written by the iconic publisher and unabashed hedonist! Hef's Little Black Book features a new! updated Afterword from Hef himself. Dedicated Playboy readers and fans of The Girls Next Door ! the hit reality TV series that takes you behind the doors of the Playboy Mansion! will not want to miss this fantastic guide to the very good life from the man who has lived it better than anyone. ...

Product details

• Authors: Hugh M. Hefner, Hugh M. Zehme Hefner, Hugh Zehme Hefner, Bill Zehme
• Publisher: It Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.11.2012
• EAN: 9780062184306
• ISBN: 978-0-06-218430-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 185 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Hefner, Hugh, Biography: general, Memoirs, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural history, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Publishing industry and journalism, Memory improvement and thinking techniques, HISTORY: WORLD, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Memory Improvement, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Music, PERFORMING ARTS: Theater / General, SELF-HELP: Motivational & Inspirational, HISTORY: Women, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs