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Acclaimed historian Jane Kamensky chronicles an indelible twentieth-century American life -- and offers an entirely new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.Whether in front of the camera or behind it, Candice Vadala understood herself as both an artist and an entrepreneur. As Candida Royalle (1950-2015) -- underground actress, porn star, producer of adult movies, and staunch feminist -- she made a business of pleasure. She helped crystalize the broader hedonistic turn in American life in the second half of the twentieth century: a period when the rules of sex were rewritten; when the white-hot "sex wars" cleaved feminism and realigned American politics; when Big Freud, Big Drugs, and Big Porn all came into looming focus; when the sex industry of the 1970s and '80s radically upended conventional understandings of law, technology, culture, love, and human desire.