Contents. History Esquire was first issued in October 1933. The magazine was first headquartered in Chicago and then, in New York City. It was founded and edited by, and. Jackson died in the crash of in 1948, while Gingrich led the magazine until his own death in 1976.

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Smart died in 1952, although he left Esquire in 1936 to found a different magazine,. The founders all had different focuses; Gingrich specialized in publishing, Smart led the business side of the magazine while Jackson led and edited the fashion section, which made up most of the magazine in its first fifteen years of publishing. Additionally, Jackson's political viewpoints contrasted with the views of Smart, which allowed for the magazine to publish debates between the two.

This grew particularly heated in 1943 when the Democratic brought charges against the magazine on behalf of the administration of. The administration alleged that Esquire had used the to promote 'lewd images'.

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Republicans opposed the lawsuit and in 1946 the found in Esquire v. Walker that Esquire's right to use the Postal Service was protected by the. Esquire started in 1933 as a quarterly press run of a hundred thousand copies.

It cost fifty cents per copy (equivalent to $9.45 today). It later transformed itself into a more refined with an emphasis on men's fashion and contributions by, and.

In the 1940s, the popularity of the and provided a circulation boost. In the 1960s, Esquire helped pioneer the trend of by publishing such writers as, and. In August 1969, Esquire published 's piece, 'An American Atrocity', one of the first reports of American atrocities committed against Vietnamese civilians. Under, who ran it from 1961 to 1973, it became as distinctive as its oversized pages. The magazine shrank to the conventional inches in 1971. The magazine was sold by the original owners to in 1977, who reinvented the magazine as a in 1978, under the title of Esquire Fortnightly. However, the fortnightly experiment proved to be a failure, and by the end of that year, the magazine lost 5 million.

Felker sold Esquire in 1979 to the 13-30 Corporation, a Tennessee publisher, whose owners refocused the magazine into a monthly. During this time, magazine was launched as something of a spinoff version of Esquire aimed at female audience.

13-30 split up in 1986, and Esquire was sold to at the end of the year, with New York Woman going its separate way to American Express Publishing. Was named of the magazine in June 1997. Since his arrival, the magazine has received numerous awards, including multiple National Magazine Awards. Prior to becoming at Esquire, was the executive editor at for nearly six years. Its award-winning staff writers include, Chris Jones, John H.

Richardson, Lisa Taddeo, and. Famous photographers have also worked for the magazine, among which fashion photographer, and. Blog In January 2009 Esquire launched a new blog—the Daily Endorsement Blog. Each morning the editors of the magazine recommend one thing for readers' immediate enjoyment: 'not a political candidate or position or party, but a breakthrough idea or product or Web site.' The concept of the 'Daily Endorsement Blog' was said to have emerged from Esquire's November 2008 issue called the 'Endorsement Issue', in which, after 75 years, Esquire publicly endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time. The Daily Endorsement Blog was officially discontinued on April 2011. Fiction From 1969 to 1976, served as fiction editor for Esquire and became known as 'Captain Fiction' because of the authors whose careers he assisted.

Lish helped establish the career of writer by publishing his short stories in Esquire, often over the objections of Hayes. Lish is noted for encouraging Carver's and publishing the short stories of. Using the influential publication as a vehicle to introduce new fiction by emerging authors, he promoted the work of such writers as, and. In February 1977, Esquire published 'For Rupert – with no promises' as an unsigned work of fiction: this was the first time it had published a work without identifying the author. Readers speculated that it was the work of, the reclusive author best known for.

Told in first-person, the story features events and Glass family names from the story '. Is quoted as saying, 'I tried to borrow Salinger's voice and the psychological circumstances of his life, as I imagine them to be now.

And I tried to use those things to elaborate on certain circumstances and events in his fiction to deepen them and add complexity.' Other authors appearing in Esquire at that time included, and. The magazine's policy of nurturing young writing talent has continued with, who debuted in Esquire in 1993, and more recently, with the work of such writers as, and. Other writers who have recently appeared in the magazine and on Esquire.com include, and.

The Napkin Fiction Project In 2007 Esquire launched the Napkin Fiction Project, in which 250 cocktail napkins were mailed to writers all over the country by the incoming fiction editor, in a playful attempt to revive short fiction—'some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first.' In return, the magazine received nearly a hundred stories., and are among the notable writers included. Dubious Achievement Awards For many years, Esquire has published its annual Dubious Achievement Awards, lampooning events of the preceding year. As a, the annual article almost always displayed an old photo of laughing, with the caption, 'Why is this man laughing?' However, the February 2006 'Dubious Achievement Awards' used the caption under a photo of, the former FBI official revealed in 2005 to be the ' source for and. The magazine did continue the Nixon photo in February 2007, referring to a poll stating that had surpassed Nixon as the 'worst president ever'. Another running gag has been headlining one especially egregious achievement, 'And then they went to.'

( was a popular restaurant in New York City. It closed May 2011.) Esquire did not publish 'Dubious Achievement Awards' for 2001, but resumed them with the 2002 awards, published in the February 2003 issue. 'Dubious Achievement Awards' were discontinued in 2008, according to an editor's note in the January 2008 issue.

However, after a nine-year hiatus, the feature was revived in the January 2017 issue with a skewering of 2016 events. Sexiest Woman Alive. See also: The annual feature Sexiest Woman Alive designation by the magazine is billed as a benchmark of female attractiveness. Originally, it was a part of the 'Women We Love' issue that was released in November.

To build interest, the magazine would do a tease, releasing partial images of the woman in the issues preceding the November issue. By 2007, it had become the dominating story of the issue and to create an element of surprise the hints were abandoned. Year Choice Age 20 23 20 32 20 36 20 23 20 28 20 28 Awards and honors 2000–present 2011. In March, Esquire won a National Magazine Award for Digital Media—the first Mobile Edition prize—from the American Society of Magazine Editors.

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