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The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa

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Availability:In StockContributor:Shawn LevyPublish date:2006-10-31Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780007170609ISBN-10:7170602UPC:9780007170609Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Rich & Famous, Caribbean & West IndiesSize:7.94 x 5.34 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCFDG88MDB

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780007170609ISBN-10:7170602UPC:9780007170609Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Rich & Famous, Caribbean & West IndiesSize:7.94 x 5.34 x 0.93 inchesWeight:0.7209Product ID:SCFDG88MDB
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Shawn Levy is the film critic of The Oregonian and the author of the critically acclaimed cultural histories Rat Pack Confidential and Ready, Steady, Go!; and King of Comedy, a biography of Jerry Lewis. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Publisher: Harper Perennial

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