Thu 10 Dec, AT 07:36
Alexander Cockburn
How can he accept the Nobel peace prize and yet refuse to sign the landmine ban?
It began in 1933 as a lad's mag of sorts, but Esquire soon had more serious aspirations. It was publishing the likes of Truman Capote and Dorothy Parker, and needed covers to match its content. So, advertising whiz-kid George Lois obliged with a run of 92 trailblazing covers dating from 1962 to 1972.