Esquire June 1983 How We Lived 50 Years Of and 50 similar items

Esquire "The Magazine for Men" -- Including all the great writers, illustrators, pictorials, vintage advertisements, fashion and more -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! Issue Date: JUNE 1983; Volume 99 No.6; 50 YEARS of Esquire IN THIS ISSUE:- This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. Any unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 GATEFOLD COVER: 50 Years of Esquire, 1933-1983. An extraordinary chronicle of American Life. BACKSTAGE: ESQUIRE FROM THE BEGINNING. DEDICATION: ARNOLD GINGRICH by Gay Talese. PROLOGUE: LIFE IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS by Ronald Steel. THE THIRTIES: THE DEPRESSION YEARS: LIVING WITH HARDTIMES by John Steinbeck -- There was poverty, yes, and despair, but we learned again that some of the best things are free. THE AGE OF FDR: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE SAVIOR OFTHE UNITED STATES by Arthur M. SchlesingerJr. -- The Depression deprived us not only of jobs but of our belief in the future. FDR showed us a path. SWING TIME: STOMPING THE BLUES AWAY by George Frazier -- When times got tough, we needed diversion, and the kings of swing helped us ride out the storm. THIRTIES ROMANCE: WANTED: A NEW MODERN MAN by Helen Lawrenson -- Forget steadiness, consistency, strength of character. The liberated woman was after something completely different. THIRTIES ROMANCE: AH MEN, AH WOMEN -- Cartoons. THE LITERARY LIFE: COMING TOTERMS WITH SCOTT AND ERNEST by Arnold Gingrich -- Knowing them both intimately, he had to ask: Who was the better writer? Who was the better friend? FASHION OF THE THIRTIES: A DAPPER PRINCE SETS THE STYLE. THE FORTIES: WAR AND PEACE: ECHOES OF DISTANT BATTLE by William Styron -- A generation forged in war had a hard lesson to learn: the fight would never be over. CARRIER WAR: THE LAST GREAT AIR BATTLE by Peter Maas -- It happened in the Pacific in 1944, when U.S. Hellcats destroyed what was left of the Japanese air force. UNSUNG HEROES: THE SEEDS OF BLACK REVOLUTION by Sinclair Lewis -- The signs of impending conflict were clear to those few who knew where to look. MORALE BUILDING: IN AND OUT OF THE ARMY Cartoons. THE LOYALTY QUESTION: THE VICTIMIZATION OF TOKYO ROSE by Diane Arbus -- Whose was the voice that came over the Japanese airwaves urging surrender? We thought we knew. FORTIES RHYTHMS: THE BIRTH OFBEBOP by Ralph Ellison -- At Mintons up in Harlem, Bird and Dizzy and Monk sketched out the shape of jazz to come. PASTIMES: GOOD OLD COUNTRY HARDBALL by Tom Wicker -- Baseball used to be skinned knees and soda pop and vacant lots: not just a game, but a whole way of life. FASHION OF THE FORTIES: CIVVIE'S CHOICE. THE URBAN EXODUS: MOVING OUT by John Cheever -- The good life came to mean a house full of children and a lawn to mow -- in other words, the suburbs. THE FIFTIES: THE EISENHOWER ERA: AMERICA INATRANCE by Frank Conroy -- During the sleepy Eisenhower years, a precociously cynical generation came of age. 1952 ELECTION: THE CHECKERS SPEECH by Gary Wills -- With his famous broadcast, Nixon saved his career and proved the power of television as a political tool. RED SCARE: THE TRIAL OF ARTHUR MILLER by John Steinbeck -- When private morality was pitted against Congress's concept of the public good, nobody won. McCARTHYISM: THE FRIVOLOUS DEMAGOGUE by Richard H. Rovere -- He was nasty, no doubt about it, but McCarthy lacked the conviction to be truly evil. EXPATRIATES: LOOKING FOR HEMINGWAY by Gay Talese -- For this generation of Americans in Paris, living in happy squalor was the best revenge. HIPSTERS: THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BEATS by John Clellon Holmes -- On the road, moving fast, out ibr kicks, the Beats were looking for something to believe in. LOTUS LAND: STAR GAZING by Helen Lawrenson -- As America watched, dazzled, the Hollywood elite clothed itself in glittering respectability. SLANG :AS WE USED TO SAY IN THE '50s by Howard Junker -- When a pill was like a dope, and a joint was maybe a bar, and getting stoned meant hitting the booze. TEEN-AGERS: THE ADORATION OFFRANKIE, RICKY, AND K00KIE by Thomas B. Morgan -- Teen-agers formed a cult and they needed idols. They found them onAmerican Bandstand. FASHION OF THE FIFTIES: HIP vs. SQUARE 192. THE SIXTIES: A DECADE OF REVOLUTION: SHOCKWAVES FROM THE BABY BOOM by Jacob Brackman -- The under-thirty generation: suddenly, a reverberating force for political and social change. NEW FRONTIERS: ENTER PRINCE JACK by Norman Mailer -- First impressions of candidate Kennedy as he stepped into the limelight. CAMELOT RECALLED: DYNASTIC AMBITIONS by Gore Vidal -- A legend grew around amartyred President, prepanng us for what seemed a likely succession of Kennedys. THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE: VOGUELAND by Gay Talese -- From a group of polished editors in New York came the latest verve-y word. GHETTOS: FIFTH AVENUE, UPTOWN by James Baldwin -- A walk through the heart of Harlem offered some unpleasant truths about segregation, northern-style. FREEDOM RIDERS: LETTERS FROM MISSISSIPPI by Paul and Geoffrey Cowan -- As white college kids joined the ranks of black activists in the South, the movement was born. SEXUAL REVOLUTION :THE MORAL DISARMAMENT OF BETTY COED by Gloria Steinem -- The Pill accelerated what was already a radical shift in the single woman's sexual mores. DRUGS: THE LAST BAD DAYS OFHAIGHT-ASHBURY by John Luce -- With love beads and incense the hippies poured into San Francisco; later came the freak-out. VIETNAM: THE EDUCATION OF A YOUNG LIEUTENANT by John Sack -- Like so many others, Lieutenant William Calley needed a question answered: Why were we in Vietnam? VIETNAM: SENDING THE WAR HOME by Michael Herr -- The correspondents in Vietnam were part of the problem, part of the solution, and always part of the story. DRAFT RESISTANCE: THE CONSCIENCE OF A HEAVYWEIGHT by Irwin Shaw -- Muhammad Ali resisted the draft and found himself in the ring with the most powerful forces in America. CAMPUS UNREST: THE LEAFLET WARS by James Simon Kunen -- If you wanted to hold a meeting or start a revolution, first you had to find a mimeograph machine. SPIRITUALISM: YES, WE HAVE No NIRVANAS by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- One man cast a jaundiced eye at the new national fad for Transcendental Meditation. THE SEVENTIES: THE AGE OF LIBERATION: WOMEN MAKE THEIR MOVE by Sally Kempton -- The women's revolution began at home, where traditional relationships became obsolete. NEW LEFT: THE DAY THE MOVEMENT DIED by Dotson Rader -- Idealists spoke a common language, but when it was all over, they had nothing to say. CONFESSIONS: A FEW WORDS ABOUT BREASTS by Nora Ephron -- When you grew up wanting to be a girl, as soft and as pink as a nursery, nothing did that but breasts. CONSUMPTION: A NATION OF MALLS by Joan Didion -- Once the shopping center took off, there was no stopping it; it became massive, gawdy, and phenomenally lucrative. THE FORD YEARS: AFTERGATE by William Greider -- For two years, the country lived on a daily fix of shock, sensation, and confession. And then it stopped. DAYS OF WINE: BOTTLING NAPA VALLEY by John Gregoty Dunne -- What we were dealing with was the illusion of pastoral preindustrial manufacturing. BURNOUT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OFA COMIC GENIUS by Robert Sam Anson -- Doug Kenney s brilliance was his humor, but his story of Seventies-style success is not a funny one. INFLATION: GETTING BY ON $100,000 AYEAR byAndrew Thbias -- Things were tough all over when people with six-figure incomes still had money problems. THE ME DECADE: SUMMING UP THE SEVENTIES by Tom Wolfe -- What did disco, George McGovern, pocket calculators, and Sid Vicious have in common? ELECTRONIC UNDERGROUND: THE FIRST COMPUTER FREAKS by Ron Rosenbaum -- The people who cracked the code of the telephone company were very smart; they were also ahead of their time. THE EIGHTIES: COMING OF AGE: ROLLING INTO THE '80s by Sara Davidson -- Living in Venice, California, was like being at camp. It was great for people who couldn't grow up. HIGH TECH: SILICONVALLEY SPIRIT by Adam Smith -- The Valley suggested an entrepreneur's utopia; the question was, Could they save the whole society? CRIME: THE CASE FOR GUNS by Chip Elliott -- A plea for sanity; and if that didn't work, a call for citizens to arm themselves. UNEMPLOYMENT: THE HIGH PRICE OFJOBLESSNESS by Bob Greene -- The indignity of getting laid off was as painful as the financial stress. GETTING AHEAD: NIGHT CLIMBING by Lee Eisenberg -- Those who stayed home could always go out; but those who went out couldn't always stay home. RELATIONSHIPS: TO BREED OR NOT TO BREED by Harry Stein -- To procreate or not was a profound decision: it also offered the opportunity for profound mistakes. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. Any unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Magazine is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD + condition (see photo), Approx 8 1/2" X 11" Standard magazine Format. Vintage Esquire magazines are more and more sought after as time goes by, and they are getting more scarce on the market!