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The Last Playboy : The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa par Levy, Shawn
by Levy, Shawn | PB | Good
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- Bon
- Remarques du vendeur
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 9780007170609
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0007170602
ISBN-13
9780007170609
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52617234
Product Key Features
Book Title
Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Political
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Shawn Levy has written more than a good book-this is an irresistible read. Hollywood will soon come knocking., A fitting elegy for a forgotten boldfaced name and a thoughtful study of mid-20th-century Pan-American politics., "Fascinating . . . A compulsive read. Shawn Levy is one of our best popular culture journalist-historians." -- Lewis MacAdams, author of Birth of the Cool: Beat, Bebop and the American Avant Garde "Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place...a perfect tribute." -- Publishers Weekly "A terrific story about a fascinating character." -- John Malkovich "Shawn Levy has written more than a good book--this is an irresistible read. Hollywood will soon come knocking." -- Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Director of the Roosevelt Center at Rulane University "A compelling piece of social history...written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality." -- Booklist "As Shawn Levy amply documents in his bubbly, breathless and appropriately inconsequential biography, Rubirosa worked hard at having fun." -- New York Times "A fitting elegy for a forgotten boldfaced name and a thoughtful study of mid-20th-century Pan-American politics." -- Entertainment Weekly, Shawn Levy has written more than a good book--this is an irresistible read. Hollywood will soon come knocking., Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place…a perfect tribute., As Shawn Levy amply documents in his bubbly, breathless and appropriately inconsequential biography, Rubirosa worked hard at having fun., A compelling piece of social history...written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality., A compelling piece of social history.written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality., Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place.a perfect tribute., Fascinating . . . A compulsive read. Shawn Levy is one of our best popular culture journalist-historians., Levy goes beyond the glitz to see Rubirosa as a product of a particular time and place...a perfect tribute., A compelling piece of social history…written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality.
Dewey Edition
22
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
327.7293/0092 B
Synopsis
At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty, particularly when it came with great wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Eva Perón, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But he was a man's man as well, polo player and race-car driver, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. He was also a jewel thief, and an intimate of one of the world's most bloodthirsty dictators. And when he died at the age of fifty-six--wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne--a glamorous era of white dinner jackets at El Morocco and celebrity for its own sake died along with him. He was one of a kind, the last of his breed. And in The Last Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious Technicolor life., At one gilded moment in history, his fame was so great that he was known the world over by his nickname alone: Rubi. Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. He had an eye for feminine beauty, particularly when it came with great wealth: Barbara Hutton, Doris Duke, Eva Per n, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. But he was a man's man as well, polo player and race-car driver, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. He was also a jewel thief, and an intimate of one of the world's most bloodthirsty dictators. And when he died at the age of fifty-six--wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne--a glamorous era of white dinner jackets at El Morocco and celebrity for its own sake died along with him. He was one of a kind, the last of his breed. And in The Last Playboy, author Shawn Levy brings the giddy, hedonistic, and utterly remarkable story of Porfirio Rubirosa to glorious Technicolor life.
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