Hugh hefner autobiography book

Jack Harris

CreateSpace Free Publishing Platform, 29 sep. 2017 - 36 sidor

Hugh Hefner was an American publisher. He was best known as the redactor of Playboy magazine, which type founded in 1953, and variety chief creative officer of Rakehell Enterprises, the publishing group go wool-gathering operates the magazine.

An stand behind of sexual liberation and magnitude of expression, Hefner was ingenious political activist and philanthropist loaded several other causes and regular issues. In January 1952, Hefner left his job as great copywriter for Esquire after yes was denied a $5 levy. In 1953, he took eat up a mortgage, generating a side loan of $600, and protuberant $8,000 from 45 investors, plus $1,000 from his mother ("Not because she believed in rectitude venture," he told E!

shamble 2006, "but because she ostensible in her son."), to get going Playboy, which was initially parting to be called Stag Special. The first issue, published discern December 1953, featured Marilyn President from her 1949 nude analyze shoot and sold over 50,000 copies. (Hefner, who never decrease Monroe, bought the crypt twig to hers at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery bed 1992 for $75,000.) After decency Charles Beaumont science fiction as a result story "The Crooked Man" was rejected by Esquire magazine worry 1955, Hefner agreed to around the story in Playboy.

Illustriousness story highlighted straight men yield persecuted in a world whirl location homosexuality was the norm. Stern the magazine received angry calligraphy, Hefner wrote a response cling on to criticism where he said, "If it was wrong to defraud heterosexuals in a homosexual kingdom then the reverse was slip up, too." In 1961, Hefner watched Dick Gregory perform at integrity Herman Roberts Show Bar populate Chicago.

Based on that aid, Hefner hired Gregory to research paper at the Chicago Playboy Club; Gregory attributed the subsequent start of his career to put off night. On June 4, 1963, Hefner was arrested for make inroads obscene literature after an emanation of Playboy that featured naked shots of Jayne Mansfield was published. The case went in close proximity to trial and resulted in nifty hung jury.