Open your notebooks, sharpen your pencils, and get ready for a history lesson like none you''ve ever experienced. Yes, that''s right: you''re about to learn everything you could ever want to know about the world history of men''s magazines -- not sports, not fashion, not hunting or fishing or how to build a birdhouse in ten easy steps, but those titillating periodicals embracing the subject dearest to all heterosexual men''s hearts and other organs: the undraped female form. A twenty-five-year veteran of the genre, former men''s magazine editor Dian Hanson traces its development from 1900 to 1980 in six massive and informative volumes. Volume II starts in the post-war period of the 1940s when the US surged ahead in magazine production while the rest of the world rebuilt and recovered, and ends in 1957 when censorship at last began to ease.
