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The Bunny Years:
The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs
By Kathryn Leigh Scott
Pomegranate Press, $25
ISBN 0938817434

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REVIEW BY KATHERINE H. WYRICK

You may have thought the species extinct since their habitat has vanished, but author Kathryn Leigh Scott is here to tell you otherwise. The Bunny Years: The Surprising Inside Story of the Playboy Clubs: The Women Who Worked as Bunnies, and Where They Are Now is a veritable Vindication of the Rights of Bunnies. Scott, a former Bunny herself and proud of it, profiles over 200 women who worked as Bunnies during the 25-year history of the Playboy Clubs. The list of former Bunnies includes a congressional candidate, a few celebrities, and women's rights activist Gloria Steinem. The author could well have subtitled the book "Gloria Steinem Was Wrong." Scott takes Steinem, evidently the Paul Revere of Bunnydom, to task for her scathing 1963 expose of the clubs. Despite the author's oh-so-earnest prose, this book is just plain lots of fun -- a romp through an era that, thankfully, has gone by. And the photographs -- Bunnies draped over a very groovy-looking Hef, on snowmobiles, in the swingin' Playboy jet, poolside -- are priceless. "Club hopping" now has a whole new meaning.