Esquire Man Best by Jay Fielden Hearst Communications (6 results)

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 7-7/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 160 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Cover Story The King of Scotland (article with interview quotes and photos: "Ewan McGregor has done everything from playing a junkie in 'Trainspotting' to having the guts to wear a rattail in the 'Star Wars' franchise - while vanquishing his own dark side. This month, in a buildup to the biggest move of his career, he puts it all on the line again to direct his first film - an adaptation of Philip Roth's masterpiece 'American Pastoral' - and to shout down Boris Johnson"); The Survivor ("Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, was taught to 'think like an immigrant' - a philosophy that helped him endure his father's financial scandal. How did a man whose grandparents escaped the Holocaust become the secret weapon of a candidate who wants to close America's borders?"); Master of Disaster ("From 'Friday Night Lights' to 'Lone Survivor,' Peter Berg has built a career directing movies about gritty real men battling extraordinary circumstances and their own personal limits - which means they are not the kind of films Hollywood's 'elite' love. This month, he brings to the screen 'Deepwater Horizon,' the story of the roughnecks who died in the inferno that engulfed the BP oil rig. Will he finally get his due?"); Pray For Us, Rev. Kimye ("Rich Wilkerson Jr. is becoming a Billy Graham for millennials - a social-media-obsessed thirty-something with a reality show and celebrity friends who preaches a gospel of positivity. But what is it he believes? Jeff Sharlet heads to Wilkerson's Vous Church in Miami to hear the good word"). Front cover shows light edge wear in places; very small, light corner crease.

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 8-3/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 128 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: The Best Bars in America, 2017 ("28 extraordinary drink experiences in this great land - and beyond"); Jimmy Iovine Wants to Learn (interview: "Even though he produced hits for legends like U2 and Patti Smith and Sold Beats to Apple for $3 billion, the cofounder of Interscope Records isn't finished"); Cover Story Kill the Boy - Let the Man Be Born! by Logan Hill (article with interview quotes and photos: "He's the face of television's most obsessed-over show. His hair alone has more fans than most actors. But as 'Game of Thrones' enters its second-to-last season, Kit Harington faces a dilemma: To enter the next phase of his career, must he leave Jon Snow behind?"); The Inconvenient Comrade by Garett M. Graff (on Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak); Perilous Business by Richard Ford ("A novelist takes on his critics"); A to Z ("This summer, Jay Z - the solo act with the most number-one albums in history - will become the first hip-hop artist inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, where he will join such legends as Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Irving Berlin. Wyatt Mason takes stock of an artist whose astonishing creativity, business career, and public profile have transformed America over the past two decades").

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 8-3/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 128 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: My Name is Roy Cohn, and I made THIS Man [Donald Trump] ("Roy Cohn was once the most feared lawyer in New York City. A ruthless master of Dirty Tricks, he smeared the reputations of his political enemies, helped send the Rosenbergs to the electric chair, and had more than one Mafia don on speed dial. But his most enduring legacy is from Ken Auletta's 1978 Esquire Profile, we meet the man who tutored the president in the Dark Arts of Gossip, Power, and Politics"); Cover Story Mad Man by Jessica Pressler (article with interview quotes and photos: "Javier Bardem is a master of playing the crazy, from a bob-topped serial killer in 'No Country for Old Men' to a revenge-happy cyberterrorist in 'Skyfall.' But these characters are not just complicated men; they're complicated men with heart. How does Bardem - who's fortunate enough to be both critically adored and married to Penelope Cruz - find the soul inside the beast?"); Charge of the Right Brigade by Sam Tanenhaus ("If you're wondering how Donald Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan, the founding father of Republican insurrection, beguile you with a History no one else can tell"); Dealing ("He had no friends. His marriage was on the rocks. He was in a full-blown midlife crisis and started becoming the type of man he loathed. But then A.O. Scott joined a poker game, and everything changed").

Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 8-3/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 132 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Cover Story big dog by Maximillian Potter (article with interview quotes and photos: "His success as Captain American has made Chris Evans one of Hollywood's sure things. So why does he want to jump out of a plane?"); Goodbye, My Brother ("During a rooftop firefight in Fallujah, in one of the most harrowing battles of the Iraq War, something happened to Elliot Ackerman that he would never forget. Twelve years later, he went back to confront the past"); 'Roid Rage ("The next big Gold Rush is not on Earth. It's on asteroids. And everyone from Google Founder Larry Page to Amazon's Jeff Bezos is racing to stake a claim. George Pendle meets the high-tech wildcatters fighting to prospect the heavens"); NYPD Black by Edward Conlon ("New York, 1965. A city on the brink. Malcolm X was assassinated, the FBI was wiretapping Marting Luther King, and militants were plotting to flood the subways with flaming gasoline. The NYPD sent dozens of BLACK UNDERCOVER officers to INFILTRATE radical groups. What was life like for the BLACK DONNIE BRASCOS?"); KIDS AREN'T US ("Esquire's Sanjiv Bhattacharya has reached his mid-forties without having kids, now it looks like he probably WON'T EVER BE A FATHER. And he's fine with that. Isn't he?"). In lightly worn covers showing two short creases, tiny closed edge tear.

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 7-7/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 114 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: The Road Taken by Dwight Garner ("The people we admire in American life tend to be those who don't forget where they came from"); Cover Story Make America Happy Again by Jeff Gordinier (article on Pharrell Williams with interview quotes and photos); Down and Dirty ("Hulk Hogan's multimillion dollar lawsuit against [Gawker], founded by Trump confidant Peter Thiel, captivated Silicon Valley, New York, the media, and Hollywood. In the end, the suit killed the site and left the First Amendment vulnerable. But A.J. Daulerio, the guy who decided to post the Hogan sex tape, hasn't told the story behind his story. Until now"); The Big Bust by Tim Weiner ("FBI Director James Comey has long been renowned for his integrity and independence. So why did he upend the 2016 election? An exclusive report from inside the FBI").

Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A very high quality, glossy magazine measuring 8-3/8" by 10-7/8" and containing 108 pages including front and rear covers. Highlights include: Christopher Nolan Wants You to Silence Your Phones (interview); Cover Story Elba's Ease by Maximillian Potter (article with interview quotes and photos: "Why is Idris Elba all smiles? Maybe because he's about to enjoy a big fall as the star of several films, beginning with 'The Dark Tower,' based on the Stephen King series"); The Devil's Advocate by Stephen Rodrick (article with interview quotes and photos: "For three decades, Bill Maher has gleefully courted controversy as a politically incorrect provocateur. But is he the defender the First Amendment needs - a funnyman not afraid to tell the truth in a time of berserk politics, safe spaces, and Alt-Right dickheads - or a smug facilitator of all he claims to despise?"); Screen Shot by Elliot Ackerman ("Earlier this year, dozens of active-duty male Marines were caught uploading to a private Facebook page thousands of explicit photos of female Marines. It was, as one observer said, 'weaponized' sexual harassment and it has become one of the biggest scandals to rock the military in years. So why has no one been held accountable?"); The Masochist's Marathon by George Pendle ("Since 1986, the world's top ultrarunners have fought to compete in the Barkley Marathons - an ever-shifting race designed by a madman to break their spirits that runs through 100 miles of hellish Appalachian Mountains, unmarked trails, and snake-riddled wilderness. So far, only fourteen people have completed it").