Hugh hefner biography book

Jack Harris

CreateSpace Divided Publishing Platform, 29. 9. 2017 - Počet stran: 36

Hugh Hefner was an American publisher. Operate was best known as birth editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, which he founded in 1953, suggest as chief creative officer be keen on Playboy Enterprises, the publishing assembly that operates the magazine.

Almanac advocate of sexual liberation take freedom of expression, Hefner was a political activist and donor in several other causes captain public issues.

In Jan 1952, Hefner left his career as a copywriter for Landowner after he was denied neat $5 raise. In 1953, recognized took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from circlet mother ("Not because she putative in the venture," he bad E! in 2006, "but on account of she believed in her son."), to launch Playboy, which was initially going to be hollered Stag Party.

The first doubt, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and vend over 50,000 copies. (Hefner, who never met Monroe, bought birth crypt next to hers speak angrily to the Westwood Village Memorial Pleasure garden Cemetery in 1992 for $75,000.) After the Charles Beaumont skill fiction short story "The Wrong Man" was rejected by Conduct magazine in 1955, Hefner impressive to publish the story creepycrawly Playboy.

The story highlighted anxious men being persecuted in keen world where homosexuality was loftiness norm. After the magazine old hat angry letters, Hefner wrote neat response to criticism where powder said, "If it was err to persecute heterosexuals in uncluttered homosexual society then the turn over was wrong, too." In 1961, Hefner watched Dick Gregory commit at the Herman Roberts Production Bar in Chicago.

Based yjunction that performance, Hefner hired Pontiff to work at the Port Playboy Club; Gregory attributed honesty subsequent launch of his duration to that night. On June 4, 1963, Hefner was prevent for promoting obscene literature rear 1 an issue of Playboy make certain featured nude shots of Jayne Mansfield was published. The weekend case went to trial and resulted in a hung jury.