ISBN10: 0872236684, ISBN13: 9780872236684, [publisher: NY. 1981. Playboy Press] Hardcover First Edition red, dark red & gilt decorative 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. little nick at spine bottom, minor suntanning along top edge, front flap creased, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). xiii+720p. biography. american history. world history. ~ What has been called "the command performance of American journalism" began in the spring of 1962, when a writer named Alex Haley returned from an assignment to profile jazz great Miles Davis and emptied a briefcase full of tapes at Playboy's editorial office in Chicago. The transcribed conversations were shaped and stitched together to form the first Playboy Interview, a feature as memorable in its own way as the centerfold. In the nearly two decades since then, through assassinations, the civil rights movement, the sexual revolution, the Vietnam war, the women's movement, rock and roll, drugs, the television explosion, and years of tumultuous change, the Playboy Interview has provided revealing portraits of those who most profoundly affect our society. It is one forum where ...
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