In actuality, the Great Leap Forward amounted to perhaps the deadliest self-inflicted calamity in human history. Mao Zedong’s ...

When rocker Eddie Cochran released "Summertime Blues" in August 1958, the concept of "the song of summer" was born.

This story first appeared in the July 1974 edition of Esquire. The author, Alec Waugh, was a British novelist and brother to ...