Esquire : [electronic resource] the best of forty years / compiled by the editors of Esquire.

Time Zones: My generation / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- A primer on the thirties / John Steinbeck -- My generation / William Styron -- The sixties / Garry Wills -- The Fitzgerald/Hemingway Epoch: On the blue water -- The snows of Kilimanjaro / Ernest Hemingway -- Pasting it together / F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Scott, Ernest and whoever / Arnold Gingrich -- Show Biz: Myself and the movies / Theodore Dreiser -- The death of James Dean / John Dos Passos -- A few well-chosen words about Ben-Hur / Dwight Macdonald -- The graduate and other strangers / Wilfrid Sheed -- Candy Darling is (almost) all girl / Thomas Berger -- Hanging out with Zero Mostel / Robert Alan Aurthur -- The Lubitsch legacy / Peter Bogdanovich -- Twilight in the smog / Orson Welles -- New York, New York: New York / Gay Talese -- Fifth Avenue, Uptown / James Baldwin -- Moving out / John Cheever -- New York at 6:30 P.M. / Dorothy Parker -- Of National Moment: Clouds in the Far East / Leon Trotsky -- The Abraham Lincoln Brigade / Brock Brower -- Hitler did not dance that jig / Laurence Stallings -- Gentlemen, this is revolution / Sinclair Lewis -- The last days of Joe McCarthy / Richard H. Rovere. The fully automated foreign policy / John Kenneth Galbraith -- Literary notes on Khrushchev / Saul Bellow -- Kennedy without tears / Tom Wicker -- When Demirgian comes marching home again (hurrah? hurrah?) / John Sack -- Two Tom Wolfes: The hollow men -- The last American hero is Junior Johnson. Yes! / Thomas Wolfe -- A question of legality: Attorney for the defense / Clarence Darrow -- The last trial of Lady Chatterley / Sybille Bedford -- The trial of Arthur Miller / John Steinbeck -- Coping With The Issues: Brave new world revisited / Aldous Huxley -- The Happy Jack Fish Hatchery papers / Dalton Trumbo, Steve Allen, etc. -- Cutting loose / Sally Kempton -- High Old Times: An evening on the house / H.L. Mencken -- They saw that they were naked / Damon Runyon -- The concours d'elegance / Joseph Wechsberg -- Passing Fancies: Latins are lousy lovers / Helen Lawrenson -- Impressions of Japan / William Faulkner -- The three greatest hotels in the world / Richard Joseph -- The totemization of Sir Winston Churchill / Malcolm Muggeridge -- A few words about breasts / Nora Ephron. Tarzan revisited / Gore Vidal -- The homecoming of Willie Mays / Murray Kempton -- Cold thoughts on the hot medium / George Frazier -- What makes Sammy Jr. run? / Thomas B. Morgan -- A perfect analysis given by a parrot / Tennessee Williams -- Great Stories: The eighty-yard run / Irwin Shaw -- The illustrated man / Ray Bradbury -- Deus Dixit / John Updike -- The little mysteries of pomp and circumstance / John O'Hara -- When Greek meets Greek / Graham Greene -- Albert Pastor at home / Dashiell Hammett -- With other eyes / Luigi Pirandello -- Heard melodies are sweeter / Philip Roth -- An idea for a story / Andre Maurois -- The growing stone / Albert Camus -- The case of Dr. Ceccioni / Georges Simenon -- The potato elf / Vladimir Nabokov -- Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote -- Forty years of Esquire fashions.