AN UNSEEMLY MAN: MY LIFE AS PORNOGRAPHER, PUNDIT, AND SOCIAL OUTCAST

PRODUCT DETAILS:

FORMAT: Hardcover

ISBN: 0-7871-1143-0

PAGES: 265

PUBLICATION DATE: December 1996

OVERVIEW:

Larry Flynt is a person for whom the term “colorful” is completely inadequate. Born in the hills of Kentucky, in the poorest county in America, Flynt became a teenage runaway, an underage recruit in both the army and the navy, a bootlegger, a scam artist, a bar owner, the proprietor of a string of go-go clubs, an evangelical Christian, an atheist, and eventually a millionaire pornographer and publisher. A prodigious sexual athlete, Flynt was shot down in his prime by an assailant’s bullet and paralyzed from the waist down.

Wheelchair bound and racked by years of searing pain, he became a pain-medicine junkie and habitue of America’s courtrooms. Persecuted by the self-righteous Charles Keating, prosecuted by ambitious district attorneys, sued by moral crusaders like Jerry Falwell, and hounded by the government, Flynt forged a blazing trail through the American legal system. Even the most straightforward journalistic account of his life would make engrossing reading. His story is an American drama. Remarkably, Larry Flynt has never told his story before. This highly personal and reflective account will surprise everyone, offend a few, and entertain many.