{"product_id":"9781593762841","title":"Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Of Playboys, Pigs, and Penthouse Paupers-An American Tale of Sex and Wonder","description":"\u003cbr\u003eA wild and uncompromising history of four infamous magazines and the outlaws behind them, \u003ci\u003eDirty! Dirty! Dirty!\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to rip the sheet off of the sleazy myth-making machine of Hugh Hefner and \u003ci\u003ePlayboy,\u003c\/i\u003e and reveal the doomed history of Hefner’s arch rival, \u003ci\u003ePenthouse\u003c\/i\u003e founder Bob Guccione, whose messiah complex and heedless spending — on a legendary flop of a movie paid for with bags of cash, a porn magazine for women, and a pie-in-the sky scheme for a portable nuclear reactor —fueled the greatest riches to rags story ever told.\u003cp\u003eThe adventure begins in the early 1950s and rips through the tumultuous ’60s and ’70s —when \u003ci\u003eHustler’s\u003c\/i\u003e Larry Flynt and \u003ci\u003eScrew’s\u003c\/i\u003e Al Goldstein were arrested dozens of times, recklessly pushing the boundaries of free speech, attacking politicians, and putting unapologetic filth front and center — through the 1990s when a sexed-up culture high on the Internet finally killed the era when men looked for satisfaction in the centerfold. As America goes, so goes it’s porn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the way we meet many unexpected heroes—John Lennon, Lenny Bruce, Helen Gurley Brown, and the staff of \u003ci\u003eMad\u003c\/i\u003e magazine among them—and villains—from Richard Nixon and the Moral Majority to Hugh Hefner himself, whose legacy, we learn, is built on a self-perpetuated lie.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Soft Skull Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035476246768,"sku":"9781593762841","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781593762841_p0.jpg?v=1763809268","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781593762841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}