Can One Good Man Redeem a Nation for the Sins of Guantánamo?

As the Obama administration prepares to try the 9/11 plotters in military tribunals, David Iglesias stands at the ready to prosecute them — and maybe just save the legacy of the White House that fired him #Sept11

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 14 minutes (3,642 words)

Robert Downey Jr.: The Second Greatest Actor in the World

Finally back on the A-list, Robert Downey Jr. is getting the respect — and the money — he deserves. But is he getting just a little dizzy up there?

Author: Scott Raab
Source: Esquire
Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 23 minutes (5,853 words)

John Demjanjuk: The Last Nazi

Funny thing is, he was never a Nazi, nor Ivan the Terrible, nor even German. So why now is he standing trial in Munich as accessory to 27,900 Nazi murders?

Author: Scott Raab
Source: Esquire
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 11 minutes (2,891 words)

We’ve Seen the Future, and It’s Unmanned

Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare forever. Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned.

Source: Esquire
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,171 words)

Please Be Seated. Guy Ritchie’s Life Will Begin Shortly.

His marriage to Madonna behind him, and the potential blockbuster Sherlock Holmes here, the director has a lot on his mind. But he can explain it all with three simple truths.

Source: Esquire
Published: Nov 1, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,409 words)

The Deal of the Century

As the people who ran Wall Street struggled to avert a complete economic collapse, an epic battle for power and, above all, cash was being waged between Barclays and JPMorgan Chase. How Bob Diamond walked away with everything he wanted.

Author: Tom Junod
Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 69 minutes (17,354 words)

Bill Clinton, Then and Now: The Esquire Interview

In a sprawling discussion of his past and our common future, the former president compares his administration’s early years with Obama’s and talks about what he believes — in health care and next year’s midterms — is about to happen

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 51 minutes (12,949 words)

The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!

Now one of America’s most legendary authors, Tom Wolfe broke out onto the national literary scene at age thirty-four with this breathless piece — an early step in the so-called New Journalism, a first reference for the term “good ol’ boy,” a deep breath into the future of the New South.

Author: Tom Wolfe
Source: Esquire
Published: Mar 1, 1965
Length: 121 minutes (30,376 words)

The Last Kennedy

Remember Ted Kennedy with this in-depth portrait of the senator from Massachusetts as a young man — not yet a lion, but working for a legacy all his own

Source: Esquire
Published: Sep 1, 2009
Length: 60 minutes (15,018 words)

The New American Religion Behind the Growing American Rage

And the Oklahoma man — eighth-grade teacher by day, militant blogger by night — who may personify it more than any of the conservatives who, when the town halls pass, may be pointing the way to a holy war that goes way beyond health care

Source: Esquire
Published: Aug 18, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,480 words)