{"id":4655,"date":"2010-08-26T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T09:10:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-12-28T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T23:36:47","slug":"1960s-and-earli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/1960s-and-earli\/","title":{"rendered":"Best articles of the 1960s and earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a subsection of the larger Best Magazine Articles Ever list. The list introduction, top 25, and links to other decades are here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

* William Hazlitt, “On Common-Place Critics<\/a>.” The Examiner, November 24, 1816. [Ed.’s note: Republished in Hazlitt’s The Round Table: A Collection of Essays on Literature, Men and Manners, Volume 2<\/em>.] <\/p>\n

* Eug\u00e8ne N. Marais, R. J. P., “Notes on Some Effects of Extreme Drought in Waterberg<\/a>.” Agricultural Journal of the Union of South Africa, Vol. 7, February 1914. [Ed.’s note: Reprinted in Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the Year 1914; reprinted in Eugene Marais, Versamelde Werke, edited by Leon Rousseau, v. 2.] Eug\u00e8ne Marais was a poet and journalist at the heart of the literary revival of the Afrikaans language; he spent several years in close observation of baboons (during which period Marais essentially formulated the modern discipline of comparative ethology, though his pioneering status was not fully recognized until 1969).<\/em> <\/p>\n

* F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Crack-Up.” Esquire, February 1936. Reprinted in Esquire<\/a> on February 26, 2008. <\/p>\n

* Albert Einstein, “Science and Religion<\/a>.” 1939. A great mind tries to bridge a great divide.<\/em><\/p>\n

*** Joseph Mitchell, “All You Can Hold for Five Bucks<\/a>.” The New Yorker, April 15, 1939. A brilliant description of the nearly extinct traditional New York “beefsteak” dinner, but almost all of the stories in [Mitchell’s] collection<\/em> Up in the Old Hotel<\/a> merit inclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n

* E. B. White, “Once More to the Lake<\/a>.” Harper’s Magazine, 1941. <\/p>\n

* A. J. Liebling, Profiles, “The Jollity Building<\/a>.” The New Yorker, April 26, 1941. <\/p>\n

* Dorothy Thompson, “Who Goes Nazi?<\/a>.” Harper’s Magazine, August 1941. <\/p>\n

* R. A. Radford, “The Economic Organisation of a P.O.W. Camp<\/a>.” Economica, 1945.<\/p>\n

** Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think<\/a>.” Atlantic Magazine, July 1945.<\/p>\n

*** John Hersey, “Hiroshima<\/a>.” The New Yorker, August 31, 1946.<\/p>\n

** Lillian Ross, Profiles, “‘How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?’<\/a>,” The New Yorker, May 13, 1950. Profile of Ernest Hemingway in decline.<\/em><\/p>\n

* Joseph Mitchell, Profiles, “The Bottom of the Harbor<\/a>.” The New Yorker, January 6, 1951. <\/p>\n

* A.J Liebling, “Yea, Verily<\/a>.” The New Yorker, September 20, 1952. It’s a profile of the horse racing pundit Colonel John R. Stingo. Later expanded and reworked into the book “The Honest Rainmaker.”<\/em><\/p>\n

* Truman Capote, “The Duke in His Domain<\/a>.” The New Yorker, November 9, 1957.<\/p>\n

* Gay Talese, “Looking for Hemingway<\/a>.” Esquire, 1960. [Ed.’s note: Republished in Talese’s The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters<\/a><\/em>.]<\/p>\n

****** John Updike, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu<\/a>.” The New Yorker, October 22, 1960. About Ted Williams career framed by his last game. I read it every opening day without fail.<\/em><\/p>\n

** Norman Mailer, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket<\/a>.” Esquire, November 1960.<\/p>\n

* S.L.A. Marshall, “First Wave at Omaha Beach<\/a>.” The Atlantic Monthly, November 1960.<\/p>\n

** Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring<\/a>.” The New Yorker, June 16, 1962. Deserving both because of its content, and because it was one of the environmental movement’s prime movers.<\/em><\/p>\n

* Hannah Arendt, “Eichmann in Jerusalem<\/a>.” The New Yorker. Part I: February 16, 1963; Part II: February 23, 1963; Part III: March 2, 1963; Part IV: March 9, 1963; Part V: March 16, 1963. [Republished as Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil<\/a><\/em>.]<\/p>\n

*Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter From Birmingham Jail” originally published under the title “The Negro Is Your Brother.” The Atlantic Monthly, August 1963. [Ed.’s note: The original article from Atlantic is offered in PDF form here<\/a>, as well as in the literary collection The American Idea: The Best of Atlantic Monthly<\/a>” by Robert Vare, Daniel B. Smith.]<\/p>\n

* Susan Sontag, “Notes on ‘Camp.’<\/a>” Partisan Review, 1964.<\/p>\n

** Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics<\/a>.” Harper’s Magazine, November 1964.<\/p>\n

* John McPhee, Profiles, “A Sense of Where You Are<\/a>.” The New Yorker, January 23, 1965. A portrait of Bill Bradley from his Princeton days, and a good analysis of the sport of basketball.<\/em><\/p>\n

*** Tom Wolfe,\u00a0“The Last American Hero is Junior Johnson. Yes!<\/a>” Esquire, March 1965.<\/p>\n

* Nat Hentoff, “Playboy Interview: Bob Dylan<\/a>.” February 1966.<\/p>\n

********** Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold<\/a>.” Esquire, April 1966.<\/p>\n

** Gay Talese, “The Silent Season of a Hero<\/a>.” Esquire, July 1966. Talese’s vivid portrait of a middle-aged Joe DiMaggio.<\/em><\/p>\n

** John Sack, “M<\/a>.” Esquire, October 1966.<\/p>\n

* Joan Didion, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream.” Saturday Evening Post, 1966. [Ed.’s note: Reprinted in Didion’s anthology Slouching Towards Bethlehem<\/a><\/em>.]<\/p>\n

** Joan Didion, “Farewell to the Enchanted City.” Saturday Evening Post, January 14, 1967. [Ed.s’ note: Reprinted in Didion’s anthologySlouching Towards Bethlehem<\/a><\/em> as “Goodby to All that<\/a>.”]<\/p>\n

* Hunter S. Thompson, “The ‘Hashbury’ is the Capital of the Hippies<\/a>.” The New York Times Magazine, Maybe 14, 1967.<\/p>\n

* Joan Didion, “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” Saturday Evening Post, September 23, 1967. [Ed.’s note: Reprinted in Didion’s anthologySlouching Towards Bethlehem<\/a><\/em>.]<\/p>\n

* Brock Yates, “The Grosse Pointe Myopians.” Car and Driver Magazine, Apri 1968. Detroit’s troubles are foretold with prescient foresight.<\/em><\/p>\n

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