It wasn't pretty, folks, but didn't we have fun?
Esquire in the sixties
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Word Count
83,750 words, Guess
Page Count
335 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1273964M
- ISBN-100393037924
- OCLC Control Number31971527
- OCLC Control Numberitwasntprettyfol0000pols
- Library of Congress Control Number95005457
and 2 more
- Goodreads1076472
- LibraryThing1057533
Classifications
- DDC051
- LCCPN4900.E8 P65 1995
Description
The sixties in America was a wild, giddy ride, an amazing Technicolor adventure, and no magazine caught the spirit of its apocalyptic fun as definitively as Esquire. Its brilliant, buccaneering editor Harold Hayes transformed the once-somnolent men's fashion magazine into a literary and cultural proving ground, where pure iconoclasm and blazing talent reigned. Art director George Lois put Sonny Liston on the cover as Santa Claus and Muhammad Ali as St. Sebastian. Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Garry Wills, Michael Herr, and others virtually invented a "New Journalism" equal to the task of deconstructing celebrity, celebrating pop culture, comprehending wars and demonstrations and riots and assassinations. Diane Arbus captured photographic images that reflected a disturbing, hidden America, and fiction writers as diverse as Norman Mailer and Raymond Carver did much the same in words. . Journalist and historian Carol Polsgrove has written the definitive history of this decade-long high-water mark in American magazine journalism.
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