Helen Gurley Brown, Terry McDonell, and the Glossy Glory Days of Magazines

As two new books take on the strange art of magazine editing—a biography of Cosmopolitan’s Helen Gurley Brown and a memoir from Terry McDonell (of Esquire and Men’s Journal, to name two)—James Wolcott reflects on the age of endless expense accounts and the legacies these magazine giants left behind.
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