Steven Watts
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
• Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy magazine and the expansion of the Playboy empire to the present
• Puts Hefner's life and work into the cultural context of American life from the mid-twentieth-century onwards
• Contains over 50 B/W and color photos, including an actual fold-out centerfold
Author
Language
English
Description
From very early on in his career, John F. Kennedy's allure was more akin to a movie star than a presidential candidate. Why were Americans so attracted to Kennedy in the late 1950s and early 1960s-his glamorous image, good looks, cool style, tough-minded rhetoric, and sex appeal?
As Steve Watts argues, JFK was tailor made for the cultural atmosphere of his time. He benefited from a crisis of manhood that had welled up in postwar America when men...