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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 prominent people discuss them¬ selves and their ideas in unusual depth and with surprising frankness. As presidents and poets, artists and athletes, saints and scoundrels have found, Playboy interviews are exhausting. That’s be¬ cause the idea has always been to push harder, to probe more deeply, to ask and ask questions until the interviewer, the editor, and the subject agree that something like the definitiv

Who reads The Playboy Interview?

Author

G. Barry Golson

Publisher

Brand: Putnam Adult; Putnam Adult

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9780872236684

Category

nonfiction

Updated

2026-03-24