num_pages: 329
description: Possibly the best book ever written about an American magazine editor, this biography offers a 3-D view of the assassinations, the student riots, the counterculture, the politicians, the pop icons and the war that made the 60s America's unforgettable decade. Under the aegis of former Marine Harold Hayes, Esquire helped turn journalists, editors and photographers like Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Raymond Carver, Michael Herr, John Berendt and Diane Arbus into celebrities in their own right. Polsgrove's brilliant book, often resembling an Esquire cover story, offers a warts and all portrait of Hayes. Afterword by Ben Bagdikian.
language: English
title: It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun?: Surviving the '60s With Esquire's Harold Hayes
titlecomplete: It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun?: Surviving the '60s With Esquire's Harold Hayes
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Rdr Books