The following chapters were first published in
Esquire Magazine: “Las Vegas (What?) Las
Vegas (Can’t Hear You! Too Noisy) Las Vegas!!!!,” “The
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” (under the title,
“There Goes [Varoom! Varoom!] That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake
Streamline Baby”), “The Marvelous Mouth,” “The Last American Hero”
(under the title, “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson.
Yes!”), and “Purveyor of the Public Life” (under the title, “Public
Lives: Confidential Magazine; Reflection in
Tranquility by the Former Owner, Robert Harrison”); “The New Art
Gallery Society” first appeared in Harper’s
Bazaar; all the other essays first appeared in the New York
Herald Tribune’s Sunday magazine,
New York. “The Big League Complex” is
reprinted from the book, New York, New York,
© 1964 by the New York Herald Tribune, with
the permission of the publishers, The Dial Press, Inc.
The drawings for “Teen-age Male
Hairdos” first appeared in the Springfield (Mass.) Sunday Republican, those for “New York’s Beautiful
People” first appeared in Venture Magazine,
and the other drawings first appeared in the New York Herald Tribune’s New York.