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Esquire Classic Podcast

A timely and revealing update of some of the most groundbreaking narrative journalism ever published by Esquire since its founding in 1933. Presented by PRX and Esquire Magazine.

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Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta

Don’t Mess With Roy Cohn, by Ken Auletta

If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize.... Read more

22 Dec 2016

26mins

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The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon

The Plane at the Bottom of the Ocean, by Bucky McMahon

The question is astonishingly simple: In the year 2015, with GPS and satellites and global surveillance everywhere all t... Read more

13 Dec 2016

26mins

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The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer

The Price of Being President, by Richard Ben Cramer

Published in 1992, Richard Ben Cramer’s What It Takes: The Way to the White House remains the richest and most unvarnish... Read more

6 Dec 2016

23mins

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The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter

The Old Man and the River, by Pete Dexter

Norman Maclean published A River Runs Through It when he was seventy-three, and only after his children implored him to ... Read more

28 Nov 2016

22mins

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The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison

The Days of Wine and Pig Hocks, by Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison, the novelist and poet who died earlier this year at the age of 78, had a gargantuan, fearless appetite tha... Read more

21 Nov 2016

24mins

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Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills

Martin Luther King Jr Is Still on the Case! by Garry Wills

In 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, the future Pulitzer Prize–winning author Garry Wills—... Read more

14 Nov 2016

30mins

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Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll

Love in the Time of Magic, by E. Jean Carroll

On November 7, 1991, Magic Johnson held a press conference announcing that he had contracted the HIV virus, effectively ... Read more

7 Nov 2016

29mins

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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe

The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce, by Tom Wolfe

It was a meeting of two American masters: Robert Noyce, who, in inventing the integrated computer chip and founding Inte... Read more

31 Oct 2016

25mins

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The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti

The House That Thurman Munson Built, by Michael Paterniti

Reggie Jackson once called himself “the straw that stirs the drink” but there was no question that Thurman Munson was th... Read more

24 Oct 2016

26mins

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The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Crack-Up, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1936, F. Scott Fitzgerald, then a struggling writer battling depression and alcoholism, published “The Crack-Up,” a r... Read more

17 Oct 2016

33mins

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