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At one gilded moment, his fame was so great that he was recognized all over the world simply by his nickname: Rubi . Pop songs were written about him. Women whom he had never met offered to leave their husbands for him. The gigantic peppermills brandished in Parisian restaurants became known, for reasons people at the time could only hint at, as "Rubirosas." Porfirio Rubirosa was the last great playboy: the roué par excellence, a symbol of powerful masculinity, ubiquity, and easy-come-easy-go money. "Work?" he shot back at an interviewer, scandalized at being asked what he did with his days. "It's impossible for me to work. I just don't have the time." His natural habitat was the polo field, the nightclub, the Formula One racecourse, the bedroom. He had an eye for beautiful women, particularly when they came with great wealth: He managed to marry in turn two of the richest women on the planet. Rumor had him bedding hundreds of famous and infamous women, including Christina Onassis, Eva Perón, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, who gleefully posed for paparazzi after he had blacked her eye in a fit of jealousy on the eve of his marriage to another woman. But he was a man's man, too, a notable polo player and race-car driver with a gift for friendship, chumming around with the likes of Joe Kennedy, Frank Sinatra, Oleg Cassini, Aly Khan, and King Farouk. When above-board, heiress-type income was scarce, he diverted himself with jewel-thievery, shadowy diplomatic errands, and any other illicit scam that came his way. Whatever legitimate power he wielded came to him from the hands of Rafael Trujillo, one of the most bloodthirstily power-mad dictators the New World has ever seen. A nation quivered at Trujillo's name for decades, yet Rubi flouted his strictures without concern, as if Trujillo's iron grip could never crush him. And he was right. When Rubi died at the age of fifty-six, wrapping his sports car around a tree in the Bois de Boulogne, an era went with him -- of white dinner jackets at El Morocco; of celebrity for its own sake when this was still a novelty; of glamour before it was available to the masses. In The Last Playboy, Shawn Levy brings Rubi's giddy, hedonistic story to Technicolor life.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0007170599
ISBN-13
9780007170593
eBay Product ID (ePID)
44123138

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Book Title
Last Playboy : the High Life of Porfirio Rubirosa
Author
Shawn Levy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
368 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
22.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
F1938.5.R83l48 2005
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 placeâ€¦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., 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., A compelling piece of social historyâ€¦written in a breezy style perfectly suitable for conjuring Rubirosa's seductive personality.
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-045115
Dewey Decimal
327.7293/0092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes

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