The Playboy Book: Fifty Years Book

It began as an after-hours project laid out on a card table in the Chicago apartment of Hugh Hefner, a young copywriter whose day job was promoting subscriptions to Children's Activities magazine. It great into the most successful and controversial magazine of its time, a fixture on the cultural landscape, an institution as universal as Disney and Coca-Cola. Here is the spectacular story of PLAYBOY, told from the inside in never-before-revealed detail. From its very first issue in 1953, at the height of the "Ike Age," PLAYBOY has been on the cutting edge of the socio-sexual revolution that changed the face of America, and this commemorative collector's volume offers a kaleidoscopic look not only at the magazine but the society it has reflected and influenced for decades.