FROM RAUNCH TO RICH IN THE GRAND AMERICAN TRADITION: The Rise of Larry Flynt!

by Boye De Mente

Overview

The story of the rise of Larry Flynt from a rustic but naturally brilliant Kentucky hillbilly to great wealth and notoriety is one of the most remarkable sagas of the 20th century…especially so because it began in my office in Phoenix Arizona in a very innocuous way—a way that no one could have possibly imagined.

After a two-hour conversation in my office I went home and said to my wife these exact words: “I just met a man who could be president of the United States as soon as he is old enough to qualify!’

My subsequent direct involvement with Larry and his cohorts, particularly his live-in mistress and eventually-to-be wife Althea Leasure, was something the most imaginative fiction writer could not dream up.
This is his story as I lived it with him.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148434627
Publisher:	Phoenix Books / Publishers
Publication date:	07/19/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	21 KB

About the Author

Boyé Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, Korea and Mexico since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, journalist, editor and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo, and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (in 1953), now Thunderbird School of Global Management, in Glendale, Arizona, USA.

De Mente wrote the first ever books on the Japanese way of doing business (Japanese Etiquette and Ethics in Business in 1959 and How to Do Business in Japan in 1962), and was the first to introduce the now commonly used Japanese terms wa, nemawashi, kaizen, tatemae-honne, shibui, sabi and wabi to the outside business world!

His 70-plus other books run the gamut from language learning to the night-time "pink" trades in Japan, the sensual nature of Oriental cultures, male-female relations, and understanding and coping with the Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mexican mindset in business and social situations. He has also written extensively about his home state of Arizona and the failures of American culture.

Recent books include: CHINA Understanding & Dealing with the Chinese Way of Doing Business; JAPAN Understanding & Dealing with the NEW Japanese Way of Doing Business; AMERICA'S FAMOUS HOPI INDIANS; ARIZONA'S LORDS OF THE LAND [the Navajos] and SPEAK JAPANESE TODAY - A Little Language Goes a Long Way! To see a full list of his 60-plus books go to: www.authorsonlinebookshop.com. All of his titles are available from Amazon.com.