Issue Date: July, 2006; vol 146, no 1
IN THIS ISSUE:-
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COVER: THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN MAN. On The Cover: Photograph By Sheryl Nields. Seacrest, Above: Styling By Suzie Hardy. Grooming By Dean Banowetz. Prop Styling By John Millhauser For Justmyname.Com.

THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN MAN 2006: What's happening, Man? A look at who we are and where we're going (and why we haven't gotten there already).
THE SURVEY OF THE AMERICAN MAN: Is the average American man weighed down by debt? Does he think America is fading? And, for God's sake, does he own a proper suit?.

THE SEXIEST WOMAN ALIVE: Part two of a day in her life. Those arms, those legs, that Formica ...The mystery deepens. BY A.J. JACOBS. [AS we all know now, it was revealed to be: SCARLETT JOHANSSON!].

TWENTY-FIVE A photo portfolio of fifty-one guys, men, pre-men, and freaks, one from each state and D. C., all the same age.

INNOCENT: John Walker Lindh is twenty-five now, serving the fourth year of a twenty-year sentence in federal prison for joining the Taliban. His journey since 2001 has been almost as astonishing as the journey that took him from California's Mann County to Kandahar. And it has been mostly a secret, until now. BY TOM JUNO.

THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN BLACK MAN: A simple questionnaire from the creator of The Boondocks. BY AARON McGRUDER.

50 REASONS IT'S GOOD TO BE AN AMERICAN MAN.

THE PROBLEM WITH BOYS: Boys have fallen behind girls in both educational achievement and career ambition. So who fixes the crisis? Clearly, not them. BY TOM CHIARELLA.

FIFTY GRAND IN SAN DIEGO He has a wife, two kids, a ton of debt, and an overstuffed chair he hates. The story of a good man trying to keep the applecart upright. BY MIKE SAGER.

LORD OF HOSTS: The Antichrist Superstar is come. And its name is Ryan Seacrest. BY SCOTT RAAB.

WHAT I'VE LEARNED: HUNTER CLEMONS, FIFTH GRADER. It's hard to be the Shaquille O'Neal of your grade and be shorter than a girl." INTERVIEWED BY CAL FUSSMAN.

ESQUIRE STYLE: They probably don't know they need help. and they definitely don't know we helped them: Seven American men of influence get a virtual update.

MAN AT HIS BEST: Rebecca Mader scares us with her joke but charms us with her underwear. Also, the seven things things you need for your bar, food combinations that could save your life, five reasons not to hate MySpace. and the second-best city for food. (Hint: It ain't Cedar Falls.) PLUS: Forty-elght hours 123 degrees and two slightly melted sneakers -the restless man in Death Valley.

THE GUIDE: From turnback cuffs to cotter stays, the anatomy of the dress shirt.

CHUCK KLOSTERMAN'S AMERICA: The video game is the most important art form since rock `n' roll. So where are its interpreters, its scholars, its critics?.

TEN THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT WOMEN: Including the secret lan- guage of hair playing. BY PARKER POSEY.

THE GAME The LPGA: Now featuring women. BY CHRIS JONES.

THIS WAY OUT: Obits of 2006. BY AL JACOBS.
This Way In.
Thes Sound And The Fury.
Those Responsible.
The Update.
EDITOR'S LETTER: THE STATE OF THE AMERICAN MAN, by DAVID GRANDER.
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