esquire is a remarkable brand with a remarkable history. When Arnold Gingrich debuted the first issue ninety-one years ago, he said he wanted it to be all things to all men. "This is difficult to accomplish, all at a crack," he admitted in his first Letter from the Editor, but in time Esquire established itself as an American fashion force, a spry cultural critic, and a home for legendary, culture-defining acts of storytelling. Or, as he would describe the publication in the February 1942 edition, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, "a tonic to the woes of the world."